The story of young Sakhalin resident Maksim Kochetkov should serve as a lesson for those who believe...

The story of young Sakhalin resident Maksim Kochetkov should serve as a lesson for those who believe they can somehow “dodge” the “special military operation” and leave the Russian army by some “legal” means.

The guy completed his compulsory military service and decided to stay in the army by signing a contract. Before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, he was going to quit, but did not have time. In the spring of 2022, Maksim was sent to war and contact with him was lost. When he called his mother a few months later, it turned out he had been thrown into a basement for refusing to take part in combat.

He and other “refuseniks” were then nevertheless forced to go on a combat mission, where Kochetkov was wounded and ended up in hospital. They then wanted to throw him back to the front before he had recovered, so he decided to run away. He returned to Sakhalin, where he was caught and sent to trial. He was given 6.5 years’ probation and returned to his unit. The guy ran away again.

“The judge told Maksim, ‘Think it over there, atone for your guilt.’ What guilt? I never understood what he was guilty of,” his mother says.

The second time, he was less lucky. An acquaintance reported Kochetkov to the police. The court’s sentence was 13 years in a strict-regime penal colony, of which he served less than a year. In prison, every condition was created to “squeeze” him back into the war. Unable to endure the abuse, Maksim signed a contract. A month later, he went missing at the front. Six months later, his remains were identified by DNA.

A young man with his whole life ahead of him was essentially sacrificed for the sake of “the action.” The Russian state-meat grinder methodically killed him instead of giving him a decent future. Maksim’s only guaranteed chance to survive and change his fate was Ukrainian captivity, but unfortunately, he did not take it.

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