A Russian court sentenced a professional soldier to five years in prison for refusing to go to war in Ukraine, judicial sources said on Thursday, AFP reports.
The trial was held at the military court in Ufa, Republic of Bashkiria.
24-year-old soldier Marcel Kandarov “did not want to participate in the Russian military operation” in Ukraine, which began in February last year, and did not report for duty in May, the press service of the court in Bashkiria said in a statement on Thursday.
In September, he was “searched” by the police, the same source reports.
Five years in prison for evading military service and five and a half years for beating his commanding staff
He was found guilty of evading military service for more than a month during mobilization and sentenced to five years in prison, the report said.
In September, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the mobilization of 300,000 reservists following a series of Russian military setbacks in Ukraine.
Tens of thousands of Russian men have left Russia to avoid conscription, including to neighboring countries such as Armenia, Georgia and Kazakhstan.
Earlier, a military court in Moscow sentenced a conscript soldier to five and a half years in prison for “hitting” an officer during a skirmish, the Russian official news agency TASS reported on Wednesday.
According to the press agency, before hitting him, the reservist expressed his “dissatisfaction” with the organization of the training of the military mobilized near Moscow.
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