"Sergeant Emil Kasymov ... went to the grocery store and witnessed how a man, threatening the seller with a knife, tries to rob him, demanding to give money from the cashier ... Emil disarmed the attacker and held him until the arrival of a police squad," the press reports -service.
The command of the military district decided to reward the serviceman, the corresponding proposals were presented to the Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu.
In September, police detained a man who attacked two shopkeepers in northern Moscow with an ax.