The Zaozersky garrison military court in the Murmansk region sentenced senior lieutenant Dmitry Vasilets to two years and five months in a colony-settlement in the case of refusing to participate in the war with Ukraine. This was reported to Mediazone by lawyer Elvira Tarasova.
The serviceman was found guilty of failure to comply with an order given in the prescribed manner in the context of an armed conflict (paragraph 2.1 of Article 332 of the Criminal Code). A criminal case against the man was opened in October.
Previously, the senior lieutenant served in Pechenga in the Murmansk region. In February 2022, he was sent to war in Ukraine. Five months later, he was given a vacation — he then decided to go to Buryatia to the parents of a deceased colleague and later «adopted the philosophy of Buddhism», which he had long been interested in. After the rest, the authorities told him to go to the front again, but Vasilets refused to do so because of his convictions.
In August, he filed a report on the refusal of the trip, a month later he wrote the document again — after that they brought him case. According to the military, the order to send him to the war was eventually brought to him four times. “I, Senior Lieutenant Vasilets, am currently a serviceman of the RF Armed Forces. I want to take into account that I am also a person and a citizen,” he explained his position in the report.
According to the decision to initiate proceedings, Vasilets, “being healthy and fit for military service, having no medical restrictions for executing the order, in the presence of an objective possibility of its execution, acting deliberately, realizing the nature of his actions, refused to execute it, thereby refusing to participate in combat».
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He became the first known defendant in the case of disobeying an order during military operations. Mediazona reported on the Vasilets case in a recent study on how Russian military conscientious objectors are tried after the start of the war.
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