Russia sentences a soldier to five years in prison for refusing to fight in Ukraine

a court of Russia sentenced a soldier with a contract to five years in prison for refusing to fight in Ukrainejudicial sources reported on Thursday.

The trial took place in the military court of Ufa, in the republic of Bashkortostan (Urals).

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“Not wanting to take part in the Russian special military operation” launched in Ukraine in February, 24-year-old Marsel Kandarov failed to report to his place of duty in Maythe unified press office of the Bashkortostan courts said on Thursday.

In September, he was “found” by security forces, according to the same source.

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

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In September, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the mobilization of 300,000 reservists, following several Russian military setbacks in Ukraine. Tens of thousands of men left the country to avoid going to the front.

In another trial, a military court in Moscow sentenced a mobilized reservist to five and a half years in a severe prison camp for “hitting” an officer in an argument, the official Russian agency TASS reported on Wednesday.

According to this agency, the reservist expressed his “dissatisfaction” about the organization of training for those mobilized near Moscow, and then blew smoke from his cigarette in the face of an officer and punched him.

Source: Elcomercio

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