In 2023, Ukrainians received 1 274 verdicts in court cases on evasion of military service. The accused received both conditional and actual terms of imprisonment of up to 5 years.
This is reported by the digital service for the analysis of state data "Opendatabot".
Since the beginning of the war in 2014, there have been a total of 3 746 such sentences.
The first peak of punishments occurred in 2015, with the beginning of Russian aggression in the Ukrainian Donbas: 1 596 sentences were passed then. Then their number gradually decreased, reaching eight completed cases in 2021. However, already in the first year after the full-scale invasion, such cases increased 25 times — up to 220 sentences.
Last year, the number of cases increased 5 times — to 1 274, compared to 2022, and 60 criminal proceedings ended in actual imprisonment.
For example, the case in September 2023, when a conscript passed a medical examination, received a summons, but did not come to the collection point. He received a sentence of imprisonment for 3 years.