Russian courts should acquit military personnel who deserted or left their posts due to difficult living conditions, including illness of relatives or violence by colleagues. It has been reported DEA News Referring to the draft resolution of the plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation.
According to the draft resolution, the norm applies to penal clauses on unauthorized leaving the place of service and desertion, such excuses can only be applied once.
The draft plenum of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation explains that the aggregation of difficult circumstances should be understood as “adverse life situations of a personal, family or service nature that existed at the time the act was committed, perceived negatively by the soldier”. under the influence of which he decided to flee. One of these reasons may be the inability to otherwise save lives or health or receive medical care.
In such cases, as stated in the draft, acquittal is rendered as there is no corpus delicti.
At the same time, he emphasizes that if a soldier continues to remain illegal outside of the military unit while difficult conditions are “removed or eliminated,” he is generally subject to criminal liability.
In January it was reported that RF IC. accused In the desertion of eight soldiers from the Kaliningrad region, who left the LPR for Podolsk near Moscow.