In Krasnodar, court obliges MoD to pay 1.5 million roubles to mother of deceased soldier

The Prikubansky District Court partially granted the claim filed by a mother of Stepan Tsymbal, deceased in the Voronezh Region, to recover compensation from the Russian Ministry of Defence.

The “Caucasian Knot” has reported that on February 10, 2019, the body of Stepan Tsymbal, a soldier from the Krasnodar Territory, was found at a training ground in the Voronezh Region, with signs of a violent death. The parents of the deceased conscript soldier demanded to disband the military unit in which their son served and punish the persons responsible for their son’s death. An officer who, according to the investigators’ version, beat the conscript soldier, was involved in the criminal case as a suspect.

The mother of the deceased conscript soldier demanded the compensation in the amount of 5 million roubles from the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) for the moral damage caused. “The court ruled to partially grant the claim, and the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation is obliged to pay the amount of 1.5 million roubles at the expense of the treasury of the Russian Federation,” the TASS quotes the joint press service of the courts of the Krasnodar Territory as reporting.

In April, the court changed the sentence on probation to Reserve Captain Dmitry Prokhorov, who was accused of driving Stepan Tsymbal to suicide, and found him guilty of abuse of power with grave consequences. Dmitry Prokhorov was sentenced to six years of imprisonment in a penal colony.