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Over 20,000 Russian soldiers prosecuted for refusing to fight in Ukraine, media reports
More than 20,000 Russian soldiers have been prosecuted for refusing to fight in Ukraine, a Russian independent media outlet Mediazona reported on June 26, citing online data from military courts.As of late May, Mediazona had documented 20,538 such cases since September 2022 (when the Kremlin announced a first wave of partial mobilization) compared to 10,025 cases reported as of June 2024.Of these, 18,159 were cases of soldiers going AWOL, 1,369 …
Over 20,000 Russians prosecuted for refusing to fight in Ukraine. Russia sees a wave of military refusal, with Ukraine not far behind
More than three years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, military courts across the country have registered over 20,000 criminal cases against soldiers accused of refus...
Russian military courts issue an average of 800 convictions per month, according to data collected by the independent media Mediazona. More information: Ukraine claims to have aborted two assassination attempts against Zelenski and the chiefs of the secret services
Mediafax Mediazone documented, until the end of May, 20,538 such cases as September 2022, when Kremlin announced a first wave of partial mobilisation. Among them, 18,159 were cases of soldiers who left the service without permission, 1,369 cases of non-compliance of an order and 1,010 cases of desert. According to Mediazone, 17,721 of the accused were already convicted. According to Volodimir Zelenski, Russia recruits between 40,000 and 45,000 R…
This was reported by “Mediazona”, which relies on data from court websites. The largest number of cases - more than 18 thousand - concern the involuntary abandonment of a part punishable by up to 10 years in prison. More than a thousand cases relate to desertion (up to 15 years in prison), and about 1.4 thousand — non-execution of an order (up to 3 years). In 2025, the pace of opening cases and sentencing again reached a peak — courts consider 7…
In Russia, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, 20,538 cases have been brought before the courts under the articles on arbitrary abandonment, failure to comply with an order and desertion, calculated Mediasona on the basis of data from court sites. 18,159 cases have been brought under the article on arbitrary abandonment (article 337), followed by failure to comply with a superior order (article 332) - 1,369, desertion (art…
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