{"id":1410486,"date":"2022-03-30T14:16:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T18:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1410486"},"modified":"2022-03-30T14:16:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T18:16:11","slug":"several-russian-servicemen-seek-help-avoiding-ukraine-war-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/several-russian-servicemen-seek-help-avoiding-ukraine-war-lawyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Several Russian servicemen seek help avoiding Ukraine war \u2013 lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fseveral-russian-servicemen-seek-help-avoiding-ukraine-war-lawyers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1410486&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022-03-30T172639Z_1_LYNXNPEI2T11K_RTROPTP_0_WW2-ANNIVERSAY-RUSSIA-REHEARSAL_1.jpg\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO: Russian servicemen march during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in Moscow\" \/><br \/>FILE PHOTO: Russian servicemen march during a rehearsal for the Victory Day parade in Red Square in central Moscow, Russia May 7, 2021. REUTERS\/Evgenia Novozhenina\/File Photo<\/div>\n<p>March 30, 2022<\/p>\n<p>By Dasha Afanasieva<\/p>\n<p>LONDON (Reuters) \u2013     Several Russian servicemen are seeking legal help to avoid being sent to fight in the war in Ukraine, two lawyers said, after 12 members of Russia\u2019s National Guard were fired for refusing to go.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyer Mikhail Benyash said around 200 people had been in contact to ask what they should do in a similar situation.<\/p>\n<p>Pavel Chikov, another Russia-based lawyer, wrote on Telegram that there were \u201canalogous stories from Crimea, Novgorod, Omsk, Stavropol\u2026 The workers are appealing for legal help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reuters could not independently confirm the rush for legal help. The National Guard did not immediately reply to an emailed  request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine and Western officials have said that Russia\u2019s forces are suffering from severely low morale in what Moscow calls its special operation to disarm and \u201cdenazify\u201d its neighbour. The West has cast it as a poorly executed, imperial-style land grab.<\/p>\n<p>In five weeks, Moscow has failed to capture any major cities and on Tuesday said it would sharply reduce operations near Kyiv and the northern city of Chernihiv, although on Wednesday attacks on Chernihiv continued.<\/p>\n<p>On Feb. 25, a day into the invasion, a National Guard commander in the southern Krasnodar region and 11 men from his company refused to follow an order to cross the border to Ukraine, Chikov wrote in an earlier post. <\/p>\n<p>The group said the order was illegal because they didn\u2019t have their international passports and because their main job description was confined to Russia, Chikov wrote. They believed they would be breaking the law by going abroad as part of an armed group.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters could not independently verify the account. <\/p>\n<p>The servicemen were fired, the lawyers said, and went on to file a wrongful dismissal lawsuit. On Tuesday, however, only three of the 12 proceeded with their claim, according to Benyash, who is representing them.<\/p>\n<p>Russia created the National Guard in 2016 to fight terrorism and organised crime. Since then, it has cracked down on peaceful anti-government protests and in 2020 was placed on standby by President Vladimir Putin to intervene in Belarus, which was squashing civil unrest of its own.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Dasha Afanasieva; Editing by Mark Trevelyan and Nick Macfie)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE PHOTO: Russian servicemen march during a rehearsal for the Victory Day parade in Red Square in central Moscow, Russia May 7, 2021. 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