Former Ukrainian soldier sentenced to 13 years for high treason and desertion, Prosecutor General's Office says.

Prosecutors proved that when Russian troops occupied Crimea in March 2014, the grenade launcher changed his oath of allegiance to the Ukrainian people: he refused to obey the order to relocate the military unit from the peninsula and joined the armed forces of the aggressor state.

Eight years later, on February 25, 2022, he entered the territory of the Kherson region as part of the occupation forces.

On August 29, during the fighting on the line of direct armed conflict, the Ukrainian military took him prisoner..

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Meanwhile, mobilized Russians, including prisoners released for the war, continue to desert from the Russian army.. A few days ago, in the Yasinovataya Donetsk region, while transporting one of the units of the occupation troops to combat positions, about 20 previously prisoners with weapons fled. Three fugitives found and destroyed.