In Lipetsk, believers Artur Netreba, Viktor Bachurin and Aleksandr Kostrov were sent to a pre-trial detention center. The FSB insisted on their arrest

The court made the decision on December 4, 2019, without notifying any of the relatives. It was found out that the men are still in a temporary detention center, and in mid-December they should be transferred to pre-trial detention center No. 1 of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Lipetsk region. The case is being conducted by Y. V. Yakushev, an investigator of the FSB of Russia in the Lipetsk region.

The Lipetsk region has become the 49th region of Russia where believers are persecuted. On December 2, 2019, at least 7 searches were carried out in the regional center. Having burst into one of the dwellings, the FSB officers knocked down the owner of the apartment, while she received a head injury, and an ambulance had to be called. The men present in the apartment were handcuffed and forced to lie on the floor.

By midnight, believers from different places were taken for a 5-hour interrogation to the FSB department. 41-year-old Artur Netreba, 57-year-old Viktor Bachurin and 58-year-old Alexander Kostrov were arrested.