Two Russian soldiers have each been sentenced to two and a half years in prison by a military court. “We don’t want to fight in Ukraine,” the soldiers allegedly said at the hearing. The court in the Kamchatka region of the Far East imposed the sentences at the end of April.
The organization OVD-Info announced on Wednesday that the soldiers were Alexander Stepanov and Andrei Mikhailov. Both had defied orders to go to war in times of war.
The maximum sentence is three years
In 2022, Russia raised the maximum sentence for such a crime to three years. According to the information, the two men were not initially transferred to a prison. You can also appeal the verdict.
According to observers, the Russian army was not nearly as successful as expected when it invaded Ukraine in February 2022 and suffered heavy casualties.
Hundreds of thousands of Russian men fled
In the fall, President Vladimir Putin ordered the mobilization of about 300,000 additional soldiers. It is believed that hundreds of thousands of men have since fled Russia to avoid being drafted.
Source: Krone
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