OREANDA-NEWS In Uzbekistan, a man was sentenced to four years in prison for a military contract with Russia, he voluntarily left a military unit and returned home. RIA Novosti writes about this.

"According to the court, the defendant left for St. Petersburg in February 2024 to work, and in June last year he signed an annual contract for military service. As stated in the text of the verdict, during the training camp near Lugansk, he was injured and, after treatment in the hospital, voluntarily left the unit," the article says.

It is known that we are talking about a 20-year-old local resident of the Central Asian republic. He was found guilty under the article on mercenary activities.

On April 16, Kirill Zagorodnikov, a participant in the special operation who lost an arm and a leg in the fighting, said that his family in Uzbekistan was being threatened because the fighter wanted to get a Russian passport. At the same time, he is denied citizenship due to the fact that he signed a contract not with the Ministry of Defense, but with a private military company (PMCs) Redut.