INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A Russian court has sentenced a 24-year-old professional soldier to five years in prison for refusing to fight in Ukraine, officials said
Thursday.The soldier, "not wanting to take part in a special military operation," did not report for duty in May 2022, the court press
service in the republic of Bashkortostan in the southern Urals said.Law enforcement located the man, Marsel Kandarov, in September, the
and Kazakhstan.Critics say many of those mobilized had no combat experience and had received little training before being sent to the
front.The sentencing comes a day after a military tribunal in Moscow sentenced a soldier to five years and six months in a penal colony for
responded by pushing him away
The private then pushed the officer in the chest.A video of the incident that circulated online showed the soldier complaining of poor
training, using obscenities, and calling the drills an "imitation."
