To one of the most active protesters against the landfill in the Kuban village Poltava to Yuri Trubachev A fine of 15,000 rubles was imposed. Residents sent NotMoscow A video shows police officers rolling Trubachev's wheelchair into the courthouse courtyard. He is breathing oxygen from a portable cylinder. He has a Group 1 disability and also suffers from severe cancer, requiring regular medical treatment.

As follows from the judge's ruling Krasnoarmeysky District Court Olga GorbTrubachev "called for participation in a public event not approved by the established procedure (...) with the purpose of expressing disagreement with the operation of the solid waste landfill." Trubachev participated in the recording of one of the videos in which desperate residents of the village try to reach out to the authorities to close the landfill. poisoning village and the nearby rice paddies. The video was called "A Revolt Is Coming," and Trubachev said, "Come out, those who can. Those who can't, come out, too. I'm coming out—and you can too."

Lawyer Mikhail Levitsky, representing Trubachev's interests, stated that he and his client consider the court's decision to be incorrect and intend to appeal it.

Trubachev's daughter is an environmental activist Natalia Garyaeva — commented on the events to a journalist from "NeMoskva":

The arrests began after the governor's visit to the landfillOn the day of the governor's arrival, police chased Yuri Nikolaevich, waving a report, trying to detain him. But he was on an IV and a blood transfusion at the time: he has cancer. And now they finally detained him. We regard this as revenge—with the governor's approval or tacit consent. In other words, they deliberately decided to punish him and show who's boss. And to demonstrate that Yuri Nikolaevich can be yanked right from his IV and held for half a day in a stuffy courtroom, to the point where he's suffocating.