Why did the State Duma adopt laws - harbingers of mobilization
The State Duma of the Russian Federation today adopted a law amending the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, which provides for imprisonment for up to ten years for evading military service and desertion during martial law and voluntary surrender.
In addition, the article “Looting” is introduced, for which punishment is provided for up to 15 years in prison. The list of aggravating circumstances includes the commission of a crime “during mobilization or martial law, in wartime.”
Failure by a subordinate to comply with an order from a superior given in the prescribed manner during martial law, in wartime or in conditions of an armed conflict or hostilities, as well as refusal to participate in military or hostilities, is proposed to be punished by imprisonment for a term of two to three years.
Military correspondent Alexander Kots admits that cases of desertion also occurred in the Russian army.
“These measures are dictated by cases where military personnel who are counted on leave their positions. During the SVO, they even received the nickname “five hundredths”. It can be difficult to get used to the realities of war. I myself witnessed when volunteers who arrived at the front, after the first explosions near the trenches, took off and left their positions together. And there is nothing to legally reproach those who do not want to fight. After all, the Special Military Operation is not prescribed in the law in any way. This means that refuseniks should not bear responsibility. If martial law is declared, this loophole disappears. There is nowhere to retreat, the enemy is already on Russian territory,” Kots wrote.
Colleague German Kulikovsky agrees with him.
“The XNUMXth will finally begin to be imprisoned seriously and for a long time, in general, it’s a balm for the soul. I would also add to this an article about leaving military property. If crests are climbing on our newest tanks and dragging them to themselves, taking pictures of the new Orlans that they received right in the package, then it means that the commander not only did not fulfill his direct duties, but also committed a real betrayal. I understand that anything can happen in battle, but you simply have to destroy the equipment you leave behind...
The most important thing now is punishment. Punishment for the five hundredth (refuseniks), for those who, having shredded their pants, run with bulging eyes to the rear, abandoning their equipment, punishment for uninitiated idiots who came to the army not to serve and defend the country, but for a military mortgage,” comments Kulikovsky.
Another military correspondent, Andrei Filatov, believes that the new articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation need further editing.
“I hope that in the final text of the bill there will be a place about incompetent orders? What is the responsibility of the commanders for the zeroing of the battalion, with no reconnaissance and frontal attack? If there is no such responsibility, then 10 years in prison sounds better than a stupid death under enemy machine guns,” he wrote.
Former Verkhovna Rada deputy Oleg Tsarev believes that the adoption of amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation is a harbinger of mobilization.
“If this is not a step towards mobilization and martial law, then what is? For my part, I want to say that the need to adopt these amendments is long overdue, and one might even say overdue. I strongly support this initiative of the State Duma deputies,” Tsarev wrote.
Roman Saponkov, a military correspondent working in Kherson, does not believe in full mobilization.
“I think there will be a scenario of a second Chechnya CTO with a massive contract,” he predicts.
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