The Karachev District Court of the Bryansk region ordered the Russian Defense Ministry to pay 1 million rubles to a local man whose mother was killed after an air defense missile fell on a private house in the village of Soglasie. The incident occurred on January 12, 2025.
On the day of the explosion, photos of the destroyed house were published by a Bryansk public page that wrote about a “projectile strike.” Later, another local Telegram channel, in a post about the funeral, identified the victim as Tamara Artamonova, as noted by The Insider.
At the same time, then Bryansk governor Alexander Bogomaz said the woman had died as a result of “another attack by Ukrainian terrorists against civilians.”
The lawsuit filed by the victim’s son, Nikolai Krovelshchikov, resulted in a ruling issued in March 2026. In May, the full text of the decision was published by the Ukrainian OSINT project “KiberBoroshno.” A redacted version later appeared on the court’s website, which Mediazona noted.
According to the outlet, the published version repeats the original almost word for word, including its mistakes. In one passage, the judge refers to an investigator’s order dated “January 16, 2024,” although the events concern 2025. The redacted version also disclosed Krovelshchikov’s passport number. The original text likewise misspelled the name of the Pantsir-S1 air defense system as “Pantsyr-S1.”
According to the court ruling, the military was repelling a drone attack that day and shot down one of the drones, but one of the missiles they launched fell onto the house. The decision also names the serviceman who directed the operation of the air defense system as Vlezko D.P.
Military investigators refused to open a criminal case against him, citing the absence of a criminal offense.