Alexey Stogniy

On 15 November 2016, Stogniy was detained. According to the materials of the criminal case, he was detained in Simferopol. The FSB circulated footage in which Stogniy says that he collected information about the Black Sea Fleet, including data on officers who transferred to the Russian military service from the Ukrainian Navy and serve in Crimea. The Russian authorities thus represented Stogniy as a member of a subversive group acting on behalf of Ukrainian intelligence. Stogniy was taken into custody.

However, Stogniy's wife claims from his words that her husband was detained not in Simferopol, but at the checkpoint "Kalanchak", he was going to Kiev for his daughter's birthday.

According to the investigation, Alexey Stogniy started to prepare for subversive activities in Crimea even before the peninsula was ceded to Russia. Allegedly, back in December 2013, he purchased "the shell casing of a RGD-5 grenade", eight rounds of ammunition and a pistol converted from a traumatic gun, an explosive substance with a blasting agent and nails, and in April 2014 he made an explosive device, which he stored together with the rest of the ammunition in his shop in Sevastopol. In November 2016, he allegedly transported all this ammunition and explosives to Simferopol, according to the criminal case file. The reasons for these actions are not explained in the case. Charges of sabotage and working for Ukrainian intelligence Stogniy was never charged. From the video distributed by the FSB, it followed that another Sevastopol businessman, Gleb Shabliy, was engaged in sabotage activities together with Stogniy, but there is no mention of him in Stogniy's case. Stogniy was charged with illegal acquisition, storage and transportation of firearms, ammunition and explosives, as well as illegal manufacture of an explosive device. At the trial he pleaded guilty.

On 18 July 2017, Stogniy was sentenced to three and a half years in a general regime colony and a fine of 120 thousand rubles. He was released on 19 February 2020.