Opendatabot: More than 1200 fugitives received sentences
Kyiv • UNN
More than 1,200 Ukrainians have received sentences ranging from suspended to 5 years in prison for evading military service since the start of the war in 2024.
1,274 Ukrainians were convicted in court cases for evading military service.
This is reported by Opendatabot, transmitted by UNN.
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1,274 sentences were handed down to Ukrainians in court cases of military service evasion. The defendants received both suspended and real prison sentences of up to 5 years. Since the outbreak of war in 2024, a total of 3,746 sentences have been passed against evaders. A third of all sentences were passed in 2023.
The largest number of sentences for military service evasion was passed in 2015 - 1,596 sentences
After that, their number gradually decreased, reaching only 8 in 2021. However, in the first year of the great war, the number of cases increased 20 times to 220 verdicts.
In 2023, the number of cases increased 5 times to 1,274. As a result, 60 criminal proceedings resulted in actual imprisonment. For example, in the spring of that year, a person liable for military service passed a medical examination, received a summons, but did not report to the collection point. As a result, he was sentenced to 3 years in prison.
120 sentences have already been handed down in January 2024, which is already 54% of the total number of sentences under this article for the whole of 2022.
Recall
The issue of deferral from mobilization for people with disabilities of groups I, II, III and graduate students will be resolved, said the head of the Servant of the People parliamentary faction, David Arakhamia.
