A man mobilized from Koma was sentenced to six years for being a “self-wolf”

The man mobilized from Koma was sentenced to six years in prison in the case of involuntary desertion. This was reported in the Vorkuta Garrison Military Court.

The press release of the court did not specify the name of the convicted person. According to the Telegram channel “Vozbuzhdennaya Koma”, the mobilized person’s name is Alexander Kraynikov. He did not return to the unit after his leave.

In Buryatia, the Kyakhta Garrison Military Court sentenced a private to 5.5 years in prison under the article on voluntary desertion. Military serviceman Kirill Kutsev, according to the court, did not show up for duty in a military unit on December 19, 2022, “wanting to take a break from his official duties in order to temporarily avoid military service.” Almost six months later – on June 12, 2023 – he was detained by the military commandant’s office.

• On September 21, 2022, mobilization for the war in Ukraine began in Russia. Three days after its inception, amendments to the Criminal Code entered into force, which toughened the punishment for military personnel (including those who were mobilized) under a number of articles. Articles from the chapter of the Criminal Code concerning crimes against military service were supplemented with new parts about actions committed during the period of mobilization or “military time”. Now, for example, for arbitrarily abandoning a part, you can get not five, but ten years of imprisonment.
• After the start of mobilization in Russia, military courts received more than four thousand criminal cases of involuntary desertion, Mediazona calculated based on data from court websites.
• Since September 2022, the courts have also received 317 cases of failure to comply with orders and 96 cases of desertion. Almost all cases of failure to comply with the order were initiated in the Kaliningrad and Rostov regions, as well as in the Primorsky Krai and Kamchatka Krai.