In Yakutsk, a conscript was fined after a dispute with the military enlistment commissar about the war

The court found Yakutsk resident Dmytro Shtyagin guilty of discrediting the Russian army because of a conversation with the military commissar about Russia’s war against Ukraine. An administrative fine was imposed on him.

This was reported on Saturday by the Telegram channel “Torboznoe Radio” with reference to the materials of the Yakutsk City Court. On October 25, in the office of the military commissar of Yakutia, Alexander Avdonin, Shtyagin said that “Russia is the aggressor, the armed forces of the Russian Federation illegally attacked Ukraine, Russia is the occupier, and the Russian army is killing civilians,” Sibir.Realii reports.

After that, the officers of the military enlistment office released the police. In relation to the conscript, the police drew up an administrative protocol on the public discrediting of the Russian army. Shtyagyn pleaded not guilty in court. On December 25, the Yakut city court found the conscript guilty and fined him, “taking into account his young age”, below the lower limit of 15,000 rubles. It is not specified how old the conscript is.

• At the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the authorities of the Russian Federation introduced administrative and criminal liability for the so-called discrediting and fakes about the Armed Forces of Russia. Citizens who write about alleged war crimes of the Russian army are prosecuted under the article about “fakes”, and those who express disagreement with the position of the Russian authorities on the Ukrainian conflict under the article about discrediting. There are known cases when people were fined, for example, for the slogan “Peace – peace” or the image of the Ukrainian flag. As Sever.Realii reminds, a court in Kamchatka fined pensioner Tatiana Plavshuk under an article about the discrediting of the Russian army for conversations in the market and songs in Ukrainian that she listened to.