“The convicted person was charged with mercenary”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
The names of the convicted are not called, there are only initials. One of them-32-year-old O.R. Romitansky district court in Bukhak region found it guilty and sentenced it to five years in the colony. According to the investigation, a man in 2018 went to work in Russia, where he received citizenship. In May 2024, he was detained on suspicion of a crime and sent to a pre -trial detention center, and in June of that year he signed a contract with the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on military service.
Uzbekistan was sent to fight in the Luhansk region, and on July 27, 2024 he was injured. In September of that year, he was found unfit for military service, after which he received 3 million rubles and returned to Uzbekistan.
The second convicted-41-year-old Shk. The court in the Altinsky district of the Andizhan region sentenced him to three years and one month of colony. According to the investigation, in 2023 he went to Namko (Ingushetia) for earnings, but later signed a contract with the military department of the Russian Federation.
He participated in hostilities from April to December 2024, where he was injured. During his vacation in Russia, he was detained due to lack of documents. As a result, the man was deported to Uzbekistan.
The Ukrainian project “I want to live” previously published the names of 1110 citizens of Uzbekistan, who signed a contract with the Ministry of Defense of Russia to participate in the war against Ukraine. The project is aware of the death of at least 109 Uzbekistan citizens at the front. The youngest of the dead was not 21, the oldest – 62 years. One of the Uzbek mercenaries died on the eighth day after the contract was signed.