The St. Petersburg garrison military court sentenced a serviceman to seven years in a strict regime colony who fled the front, not wanting to take part in the war. According to the United Press Service of the Courts of St. Petersburg, he was tried under Part 3 of Article 338 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (desertion committed during the period of mobilization or martial law).
According to the investigation, in October 2022, a man called up for mobilization left a dugout near the “LPR” without permission and lived in an abandoned house for some time. Then he changed into civilian clothes, burned his military ID, buried a machine gun and drove to the city of Donetsk in the Rostov region in a car that a certain woman had lent him.
On November 4, a man who had escaped from the war went home – to the Leningrad region. A few days later, he came to the investigation department of the Russian Investigative Committee for the St. Petersburg garrison. Until the end of the proceedings, the man remained at large and was taken into custody in the courtroom.