Russian President Vladimir Putin has exchanged letters of support and cooperation with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as the Kremlin scrambles to find additional sources of weapons and ammunition for its war in Ukraine, the Biden administration confirmed Wednesday.
. Despite making military service highly lucrative — a junior soldier in combat is paid almost three times the national average for civilian workers — Russian troops are increasingly going AWOL from the front lines.
Prosecutors filed criminal charges against more than 2,000 soldiers accused of fleeing their posts in the first half of 2023. That’s more than twice the number of AWOL cases for the entire previous year, Russian independent media said., said opposition in the ranks is driving the growing number of desertions in the armed forces. The company said they based their analysis on a study of Russian court decisions.
“The majority of these sentences are suspended, thereby enabling the command to send violating soldiers back to the front lines,” Mediazona reported. Last week, two Russian soldiers were sentenced to two years in a penal colony for refusing to return to their units in
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