Andrei Timin

A contract soldier. Refused to go to war since February 2022. According to him, at first the command said that they would send them for training exercises, but he "started to realise even then that it was a deception". In September 2022, even before mobilisation was announced, Timin wrote a discharge report. He said that his fellow soldiers realised "that no one needed it". The report was not accepted and Timin was reinstated in October. While in the unit, he wore civilian clothes and went to work delivering pizzas after the morning formation. In addition to not wanting to participate in the war, the reason not to go there was family problems: Timin's younger sister was taken away from her mother and temporarily placed in an orphanage, her mother was threatened with deprivation of parental rights, and Timin was preparing to apply for guardianship. In February 2023, Timin was ordered to go to war, he again refused, after which a criminal case was filed against him in March. On 8 August 2023, Timin was sentenced to two and a half years in a penal colony.