Voluntary surrender is considered a crime if “it is possible to offer decisive resistance to the enemy and avoid capture.”
The Supreme Court of Russia has prepared a resolution on a new article of the Criminal Code on criminal liability for voluntary surrender. This was reported by the Russian propaganda news agency RIA Novosti.
It is reported that voluntary surrender is considered a crime if “there is an opportunity to put up a decisive resistance to the enemy and avoid capture”, and if a fighter is captured before he can fight (for example, if he is seriously wounded), then he must he will be judged because he will not do it.
It is reported that voluntary surrender is punishable by 3 to 10 years in prison, and if a military person goes to the side of the enemy, he will be tried for “treason”, and up to 20 years in prison is given for this. .
It is also reported that a soldier who voluntarily surrenders for the first time will avoid criminal liability “if all the conditions set for the criteria are present”: that is, if he “takes steps for his release, returned to the unit or place of service” and “had not committed other crimes while in captivity.”
It will be recalled that earlier the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case against the prosecutor and judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for issuing an arrest warrant for the President of Russia Vladimir Putin .
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Source: korrespondent
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