In the Chelyabinsk region, a senior sergeant beat his commander to death. A case was brought against him under Part 3 of Art. 334 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (violent actions against the chief committed during the period of mobilization), Magnitogorsk Online reports with reference to the press service of the court.
Under this article, a senior sergeant faces 5 to 15 years in prison. The Magnitogorsk garrison military court decided to take him into custody for two months.
According to the investigation, on December 23, a drunken senior sergeant attacked the captain in the compartment of a command car of a military echelon at the Misyash station. The captain died at the scene from his injuries.
Both the captain and the senior sergeant were called up for mobilization service.
In September of this year, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law amending the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation on punishment for desertion, looting and surrender, introducing the concepts of mobilization and martial law into the code. In particular, Article 334 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (violent actions against the boss) was supplemented with part 3 – imprisonment for a term of 5 to 15 years for committing a crime in an armed conflict.
Since the beginning of mobilization in Russia, mobilized people regularly die before reaching the front. In only one military unit in the Leningrad region, at least four mobilized people died for various reasons.
In the training unit in Elani in the Sverdlovsk region, four mobilized people died . State Duma deputy Maxim Ivanov, who oversees the situation with those mobilized in the Urals, commented on the death of one of them: “To be honest, I don’t know. Died and died, no longer began to specify.