Kapatsyna Andrey Andreevich

Andrei Kapatsyna, an air traffic controller from the Magadan region, was conscripted into military service on September 22, 2022—the day his employer handed him a summons from the military commissariat. Capatsyona arrived at the assembly point in Magadan, where he said that his employer had submitted documents for a deferment, but Capatsyona was still sent to a military unit in Vladivostok anyway. While in the military unit, Andrey Kappatsyna twice refused to carry out the order of the unit commander to depart for the zone of military operations, justifying his refusal on religious grounds - the first time on October 20, when officers announced the order of the unit commander on the parade ground in the presence of other mobilized personnel, which Andrey "openly refused" to carry out. The second one – on November 1 in the office of the unit's headquarters, when the commander's order was announced again. In March 2023, a criminal case was opened against Kapatsyntse for refusing to obey an order in combat conditions. All this time he was held together with other refuseniks at the location of the 155th separate Marine Brigade in Vladivostok. On June 29, 2023, Judge Gennady Emelyanov of the Vladivostok Garrison Military Court sentenced Andrei Kapatsyntse to 2 years and 10 months in a penal colony-settlement. On August 17, 2023, the Pacific Fleet Military Court under the chairmanship of Judge Sergey Suvorov left the verdict in force.