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War in Ukraine: five years in prison for a Russian soldier who refused to fight

2023-01-12T14:03:21.837Z


A 24-year-old contract soldier who did not report to his place of duty in May was “found” in September by the forces


Because he refused to fight in Ukraine, a Russian contract serviceman was sentenced to five years in prison.

The trial took place at the military court in Ufa, in the Republic of Bashkortostan (Urals), judicial sources said on Thursday.

Not wanting to "participate in the Russian special military operation", Marsel Kandarov, 24, did not show up in May at his place of duty, said Thursday in a press release the unified press service of the courts of Bashkortostan.

In September, he was "found" by the police, according to the same source.

He was found guilty of evading military service for more than a month during a period of mobilization and was sentenced to five years in a prison camp, the statement said.

Another reservist sentenced for 'hitting' an officer

In September, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the mobilization of 300,000 reservists, after a series of Russian military setbacks in Ukraine.

Tens of thousands of Russian men had left Russia in stride to escape mobilization, in particular by going to neighboring countries of Russia such as Armenia, Georgia and Kazakhstan.

Separately, a military court in Moscow sentenced a mobilized reservist to five and a half years in a harsh prison camp for "hitting" an officer during an argument, the official Russian news agency Tass reported on Wednesday.

According to the news agency, the reservist expressed his "dissatisfaction" with the organization of the training of mobilized soldiers near Moscow, before spitting smoke from his cigarette in the face of an officer and kicking him fist.

Source: leparis

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