 The number of Russian soldiers who refuse to fight is increasing. A military court in Russia's Kamchatka has sentenced two servicemen who refused to go to war in Ukraine to 2.6 years in a general security prison. Siberia.reli.news.outlet reported it. Military officer Alexander Stepanov refused to go to Ukraine on the 18th of January 2023, while staying at the headquarters of one of the military units in Kamchatka. On the 21st of January, another serviceman Andrey Mikhailov refused to comply with a similar order from the commander while in a club of a military unit in the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. They were found guilty of disobeying the command's order during mobilization. From September 2022 to the end of April 2023, Russian military courts received 1,064 criminal cases against servicemen who voluntarily left their place of service, refused to obey an order or deserted. In September 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on amendments to the criminal code which increased prison terms for desertion, per se, and desertion during hostilities and mobilization. The first criminal case with these amendments considered was initiated in Murmansk in December 2022.