Ural Man Gets Prison for Threats With Airsoft Grenade Replicas

42-year-old Polevskoy resident Aleksei Voinov has been convicted of hooliganism using items as weapons. The court sentenced him to 3 years and 8 months of deprivation of liberty in a standard-regime penal colony.

The incident occurred on 8 October 2025. Voinov, after quarrelling with two teenagers aged 13 and 15, pulled out two airsoft grenades that externally resembled live RGD-5 and F-1 grenades. Waving them around, he threatened to detonate the devices and showered the minors with obscenities.

On the same day, the man caused a scene in the lobby of a city hospital. There, he shouted threats at an acquaintance and other visitors, showing them the same replica grenades.

Separately, Voinov was charged with forging a document. He presented a traffic police inspector with a fake driver«s license, but the officer immediately recognized the forgery.

The man committed all these offenses while serving a suspended sentence. «The man committed these listed crimes while being under a suspended sentence. The court revoked the conditional sentence and added the unserved part of the old punishment to the new one,» explained the Sverdlovsk Regional Court.

The combined sentence resulted in a final term of 3 years and 8 months in a colony. Voinov retains the right to appeal the verdict.

Earlier, a similar case was recorded in Pervouralsk: a 52-year-old man, claiming to have a grenade, threatened to blow up a house and took a hostage.