OREANDA-NEWS  The Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk garrison military court sentenced a junior sergeant to six years in a general regime colony for escaping from a unit in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). 

On Sakhalin, the military was found guilty under Article 337 ("Unauthorized abandonment of a unit") The Criminal Code OF the Russian Federation. He was stripped of the military rank of "junior sergeant".

According to investigators, on March 19, 2023, the convict decided to take a break from service, therefore, without good reason, he left the unit that was stationed in the DPR. At first, he idly spent time in the republic, and then went to his home in the Krasnodar Territory, where he rested and helped his mother with the housework. On September 13, 2023, the man arrived at a military unit in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and voluntarily stopped evading military service.

Earlier it became known that the garrison military courts of St. Petersburg handed down 108 convictions against military personnel who evaded their duties in military service in 2023.