Russian Woman Tried For Avoiding Mobilisation During Pregnancy

This is the first case.

In Vladikavkaz, a Russian garrison military court sentenced Sergeant Madina Kabaloeva to six years in a general regime colony. She was found guilty of failing to report for duty during mobilisation without a valid reason, although she was pregnant at the time, reports obozrevatel.com.

RosSMI writes that this is the first case in which a female soldier has been convicted in the Russian Federation for evading mobilisation. According to the case materials, Kabaloeva went to the medical company of her military unit, where she received a recommendation for temporary exemption from military service because she was pregnant and had a minor child (born in 2018).

The Investigative Committee considered this a failure to report to the leadership of the military unit. Kabaloeva admitted that she did not go to the command in person - because she thought that information about the availability of the certificate granting her temporary exemption from service would be passed on to her superiors.

The military prosecutor did not accept these arguments. He stated that the defendant should have been dismissed from service because of her pregnancy. However, the court found that she continued to receive the allowance and enjoyed the benefits.

The execution of the sentence - six years in a general regime colony - was postponed until 2032 (when Kabaloeva's five-year-old child is 14). The woman's lawyer, Roman Rabadanov, appealed the verdict, but the Criminal Chamber of the Southern District Military Court upheld the decision of the first instance court.