Mikhail Aid

Tomsk resident. No later than August 2024, he was detained on charges of public justification of terrorism. Either then or later he was accused of participation in the activities of a terrorist organisation and high treason. According to the investigation, he called for joining the Russian Freedom Legion and reported on its courses, which taught how to use drones during combat operations. On 15 October 2025, Aid was sentenced to 14 years in a strict regime colony. On 19 February 2026, the appeal court changed the sentence, details are unknown.

The Dossier publication in a piece on the FSB agent Semyon Ryzhakov, who left Russia, mentioned that he was actively communicating with Aid, and it was the criminal case against Aid that became the reason for Ryzhakov's detention and his recruitment: Ryzhakov agreed on the instructions of his FSB handler to create fake channels allegedly related to the Ukrainian security services, to get in touch with Russians who showed interest in these structures, and to push them to commit crimes.