Black Sea Fleet sergeant sentenced to five years behind bars over charges of evading mobilisation
The Sevastopol Garrison Military Court has sentenced a junior sergeant of the Black Sea Fleet, Tryapkin (no first name provided — translator’s note), to five years and four months in a penal colony over charges of evading mobilisation, as per the court’s press service.
According to the investigation, Tryapkin was undergoing contractual military service in order to evade mobilisation. In October 2022, he left his unit and went to Simferopol to help his acquaintance with her housework and taking care of her children; he lived in the city “where he passed the time at his leisure”.
In February 2023, he came to the military investigation department and wrote a voluntary confession, admitting his guilt, the court claims.
Mediazona previously reported that 1,053 criminal cases on going AWOL were filed in Russian garrison courts during the first four months of 2023. The number is higher than that of cases during the entirety of 2022 (1,001).
The outlet notes that the majority of the 2023 cases (992) were filed after the punishment for “crimes against military service” had been increased and the mobilisation had been declared in Russia.
