A military court has sentenced a resident of the western Russian region of Chelyabinsk to 13 years in a maximum-security prison and fined him 200,000 rubles ($2,245) on a charge of high treason for calling on those mobilized to the military to surrender to Ukrainian forces. Investigators said the calls, posted on social media, had been made on instructions from "a representative of a foreign state." The man, whose name was not made public, was also charged with justifying terrorism for allegedly posting a comment on a social network in which he approved of the explosion on the Crimean Bridge that occurred in October 2022. To read the original story by Current Time, click here.
Russian Jailed For 13 Years For Urging Russian Troops To Surrender
Russian reservists called up for mobilization undergo training at a training ground near Donetsk in eastern Ukraine in October 2022.