Russian court convicted a professional soldier in five years imprisonment because he refused to go and fight in Ukraineaccording to judicial imgs cited by AFP.
The trial took place in court martial in Ufa in the Republic of Bashkortostan, in the Urals.
Not wanting to “participate in the Russian special military operation” launched in Ukraine last February, the Marcel Kandarov, 24, did not appear at his place of duty in May, the press service of the courts of Bashkortostan reported.
In September, he was “detected” by the forces of order, according to the same img.
He was found guilty of avoiding military service for more than one month in a period of conscription and sentenced to five years in a prison colony, underlines the announcement.
In September, as APE-MPE reminds, the Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered a partial mobilization of 300,000 reservistsfollowing a series of Russian military setbacks in Ukraine.
Tens of thousands of Russian men left Russia to avoid conscription, mainly going to Russia’s neighboring countries, such as Armenia, Georgia and Kazakhstan.
In a separate case, military court in Moscow convicted a reservist who had served five-and-a-half years in prison for “hitting” an officer during an altercation, Russia’s TASS news agency reported yesterday.
According to the news agency, the reservist expressed his “dissatisfaction” with the organization of conscript training near Moscow, and spat his cigarette smoke in the face of an officer and punched him.
Source: News Beast
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