As the Cheka-OGPU learned, two Russian contract soldiers were convicted of refusing to go to the zone of a “special military operation.” Ilya Masalov and Timofey Abyshkin received 2 years 6 months and 2 years 3 months in a penal settlement, respectively, for being in the formation of personnel in January, “without valid reasons, wanting to avoid participating in hostilities during a special military operation,” refused to comply with the “combat order of the commander of the military unit to leave
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