Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ A Russian soldier has been convicted of desertion after returning from leave only to find that his entire unit had been wiped out and he had nowhere to go. He has been sentenced to seven years' imprisonment in a maximum security prison colony. ⬇️

2/ Kavkaz.Realii reports on the case of Konstantin Zhurba, a soldier from Adygea, who was found guilty of unauthorized abandonment of his unit and desertion. His conviction by a military court was recently upheld on appeal by the Southern District Military Court.

3/ Zhurba was accused of having not shown up at his unit's deployment point in Ukraine and lived instead in Maikop in Adygea. His lawyer says he was told on returning from leave that all the soldiers in his unit had been declared missing in action, leaving him with nowhere to go.

4/ After Zhurba was detained by the police, he was assigned to a different unit, but escaped from there too. He admitted guilt and agreed to continue serving at the front, and pleaded his dependent childen and elderly parents as mitigating circumstances.

5/ However, as Kavkaz.Realii reports, "the courts of two instances considered the defence's arguments untenable, leaving the sentence with real imprisonment in force." /end

Source:
kavkazr.com/a/voennyy-iz-a…