In Russia’s North Caucasus, 115 National Guards have refused to deploy in the war against Ukraine. However, this earned them a dismissal, which was declared legal by a military court on Thursday.
This was reported by the Interfax bureau from Nalchik, the capital of the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. The National Guard reportedly refused to follow orders and returned to their barracks.
Those involved appealed against dismissal, but lost the procedure
When their contracts were subsequently terminated, they filed a lawsuit but lost the case. The verdict is not yet legally binding. According to media reports, 15 members of the OMON police unit have also lost their jobs in the southern Russian region of Krasnodar. They had been on an exercise in Crimea in February and had refused to engage in the war against Ukraine.
High proportion of young men from poor regions of Russia
In addition to the regular army, the Russian leadership also sends units of the National Guard to the “military special operation”, as the war is officially called. In all units there is a large proportion of young men from the particularly poor regions of Russia. This also includes Kabardino-Balkaria and Dagestan in the Caucasus or Buryatia in Siberia.
For these men, the military or police is often the only prospect of a job. According to experts, these peripheral republics are also disproportionately affected by the Russian deaths and injuries in the war in Ukraine.
Source: Krone
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