Since the beginning of the war, more than 10 thousand Russian military personnel have been accused of refusing to serve
In May alone, military courts received 929 criminal cases for unauthorized abandonment of a unit, refusal to carry out orders, and desertion. Since 2022, Russian military courts have received 10,025 criminal cases of refusal to serve; information about criminal cases on the websites of military courts as of June 15 was collected by Mediazona*. There are 10,085 people accused in these cases, 8,594 of whom have already been sentenced.