The Omsk Garrison Court sentenced mobilized Vladislav Krenik to five years in a penal colony in the case of leaving his place of service (Part 5 of Article 337 of the Criminal Code). The verdict was handed down on December 27, but it became known only now.
According to the court decision, in November 2022, Krenik learned that his military unit would be sent to war in Ukraine. After this, he turned to his commander with a report in which he announced his pacifist beliefs and asked to be transferred to alternative civilian service (ACS). In his address, the mobilized man noted that he “doesn’t want to kill people” in the war.
After the refusal, Krenik’s “psycho-emotional state worsened” and his back began to hurt, problems with which the mobilized man had had before. It is not reported when exactly the man left the unit. The verdict states that he tried to commit suicide at home, but his mother dissuaded him.
In addition, it is known that after leaving the military unit, Krenik was placed in a psychiatric clinic, after leaving which he was detained by the military police. The mobilized person insisted that he did not shirk service and appealed to the prosecutor’s office and the Commissioner for Human Rights with applications for his transfer to the ACS.
At the trial, it also turned out that immediately after receiving the summons, in September 2022, Krenik informed the military registration and enlistment office employees that he was a pacifist and brought them certificates about the presence of back diseases — protrusion of intervertebral discs and disc herniation.
During the investigation, the mobilized man was under recognizance not to leave. When imposing the punishment, judge Andrei Tekusan took into account Krenic’s health problems.
Mediazona found out that in 2023, more than five thousand cases were brought to the courts under the article on unauthorized abandonment of a part.
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