To improve discipline: The occupiers continue to intimidate in prison terms - isw

According to analysts, several Russians have been convicted in court in the last few months, who allegedly abused their office and were noticed in corruption. The command of the Russian army is trying to increase discipline in prison units. This may be due to the Armed Forces, which is stated in the report of the American Institute for War Study (ISW) of January 17.

As an example of analytics, they cited the fact that on January 16, the Western District Military Court of Moscow condemned the former chief of the Rosgvardia Maritime Office Sergei Volkov to six years of imprisonment. The colonel is accused of allegedly supplying substandard radar systems that were needed to protect the Crimean bridge on a temporarily occupied peninsula.

It was also about the gas pipeline from the Krasnodar Territory, which also had to protect the objects in the Crimea from the attacks of Ukrainian drones. As a result, the court found Sergiy Volkov guilty of "abuse of office, which caused grave consequences. " Also talked about a corruption scheme worth $ 4. 5 million. Two radar systems were purchased for this money, which could not protect Russian facilities in the occupied territories, which he was allegedly informed.

Some time before, the Second Western District Military Court announced a sentence for two more Russian invaders. On December 6, two air defense officers were accused of negligence, as they were allegedly strikes in the Russian territory. Before that, the commander of the 1st Air Defense Air Force was also detained through corruption and bribes. ISW suggests that this may be associated with drones in Moscow City, which took place last summer.

In this way, analysts, command of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation try to create a precedent for the army and show that they can get a real prison term if they do not fulfill their tasks. "It does not matter whether these officers have violated the Russian rules for combat duty, or indirectly associate the failure to fulfill their duties with corruption schemes.

The Russian command probably hopes that these precedents will improve discipline among Russian troops in Ukraine, although ISW. He does not observe this effect, " - continued in ISW. We will remind, on January 14 it was reported that the former Russian official-hogberry after the prison term went to fight in Ukraine.

It is about the former mayor of Vladivostok Oleg Humeniuk, who was supposed to stay 12 years in a colony for a bribe in a particularly large size, but eventually went to fight in Ukraine against the Armed Forces for a year. On December 26, it was reported that in occupied Donetsk, soldiers of the Armed Forces were sentenced to the "murder" of Mariupol.