The invaders have refused to fight in Ukraine massively: how they were punished

In 2023, one of the problems for the Russian army was the mass refusal of contractors and mobilized to fight in Ukraine. In Russia, the articles that were judged for violation of discipline in the army were strengthened, journalists told. More than 4. 5 thousand military armed forces of the Russian Federation refused to fight in Ukraine. This was reported by the Russian edition "Project".

"According to the laws imposed in Russia in connection with the war, more than 13 thousand people were tried, of which 4. 5 thousand are military," the statement said. After the start of a full -scale invasion of the Russian Federation, "military censorship" was introduced.

At the beginning of March 2022, the law on the spread of "fakes" on the army, which provided for the dissemination of "known information" about the embassies, the prosecutor's office, Rosgvardia and the Ministry of Emergencies was known. By the beginning of 2024, 273 criminal cases were initiated on this article. In addition, seven new articles from the Military Censorship Package were introduced into the Criminal and Administrative Code. During 2022-2023, 8797 people were sentenced.

In 2023, for the Russian army, one of the problems was the mass refusal of contractors and mobilized to fight in Ukraine. At the end of 2022, articles were strengthened for violating the discipline in the troops. "The number of cases under articles related to the rejection of duties in 2023 has increased sharply. In total, 4642 persons were judged by the new, repressive parts of articles in the army for 2022-2023.

Russia does not wage any war, the martial law in the country has never been introduced, and mobilization was called "partial", - the journalists said. The publications emphasized that judges make sentences under the pretext of "armed conflict or fighting" in the most violent formulations. In the way, the Russian military, which fled from military units, condemned from six to ten years of strict regime.

However, for open refusal to fight in Ukraine, Russian courts were punished relatively gently, the average term-two years and three months and colonies-settlement. On February 20, it became known that the Russian colonies began to raid for recruiting women to participate in the war against Ukraine. The enemy proposes to sign a contract with the Defense Ministry, duration per year.