Published September 15,2023
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Russia on Friday sentenced a soldier to 13 years in a “maximum security” penal colony for deserting his unit to keep away from preventing in Ukraine.
Moscow has handed extreme punishments for desertion throughout mobilisation — which triggered a wave of emigration final yr — and to troopers who refused to enter battle.
A army tribunal within the fareastern island of Sakhalin stated the soldier, Maxim Kochetkov, abandoned his unit “to avoid being sent to the special military operation” in Ukraine.
He was arrested in July on the island of Sakhalin by police.
Kochetkov was handed 9 years for desertion however had his sentence prolonged as a result of felony proceedings for leaving his unit with out permission in February final yr.
The court docket stated he’ll serve the 13 years in a “maximum security correctional colony.”
President Vladimir Putin had ordered the mobilisation of 300,000 males to refill Moscow’s ranks in Ukraine in September final yr.
Separately, a Moscow-installed court docket in occupied Donetsk in japanese Ukraine sentenced a Ukrainian prisoner of struggle from the Azov regiment to 26 years in jail, Russian state media reported.
The Azov regiment held the defence of Ukraine’s port metropolis of Mariupol earlier than it fell to Russian forces final Spring
The court docket accused Ukrainian soldier Ruslan Kolodyazhny of killing two civilians in Mariupol in April 2022, in line with the RIA Novosti news company.
The news company quoted a court docket assertion saying the soldier will serve the sentence in a “maximum security correctional facility.”
Source: www.anews.com.tr
