"We need to increase the penalties ... While we have a transition period in the Zaporizhzhya region, we can lift the moratorium on the death penalty, "Rogov said on the air of the Komsomolskaya Pravda radio station.

According to RIA Novosti, he expressed the opinion that as soon as terrorists understand that punishment is inevitable, terrorist attacks will come to naught.

On the morning of March 23, it became known that a policeman was injured as a result of an explosion in Melitopol. He was hospitalized with injuries of varying severity.

Earlier it was reported that the Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Russia Valery Zorkin during a speech at the X All-Russian Congress of Judges opposed the return of the death penalty.

In early November, the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said that in the Kremlin there are no discussions about the return of the death penalty.