Russia has sentenced a soldier who almost fatally shot his brother’s commander, who died on the front line in Ukraine, to 10 years in prison, the Sevastopol Garrison Court in annexed Crimea reports, the Moscow Times reports with reference to Kommersant.

29-year-old Ismail Dzangiev was convicted of shooting a platoon commander in the head, whom he blamed for the death of his younger brother, Kommersant newspaper reports.

20-year-old Zelimkhan Dzangiev died in March 2022 during an ambush in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, which Russian troops captured at the end of last spring during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The commander, Sergeant Jan Larionov, survived the shelling.

The Sevastopol court found Dzangiev guilty of attempted murder and other crimes related to military discipline, according to a statement published on Wednesday.

His lawyers argued in court that their client was in a state of shock and planned to appeal the verdict.

Dzangiev, who hails from the Russian republic of Ingushetia in the Caucasus, pleaded guilty to some of the charges.

The court ordered him to pay Larionov 400,000 rubles ($5,000).

This is not the first time a soldier has rebelled or tried to take revenge. In January, the Odintsovo Garrison Military Court sentenced conscript soldier Oleksandr Leshkov to five years and six months in a strict regime colony, finding him guilty of beating his commander.

The incident came to light in the media in mid-November, when a video of a conflict between the mobilized and their commander at the training ground in Patriot Park near Moscow appeared on the Internet.

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