In the first six months of 2025, Russian garrison military courts sentenced 6192 military personnel in criminal cases. This is evidenced by the data of the Judicial Department at the Supreme Court, which was noted by «Verstka»*.
This is a record figure for half a year for all the time of statistics, at least since 2011. In 2022, the first year of the full-scale war, garrison courts sentenced 4191 people. In 2023, there were 7779, and in 2024, the number of convicts increased by 76% — to 13 699 people.
Compared to the first half of 2024, it increased insignificantly — in the first six months of last year, 6088 military personnel were sentenced in criminal cases.
More than half of the convicted military personnel received real sentences in the first half of 2025 — 3643 people.
In addition, in the first half of 2025, the number of military personnel convicted under articles related to drug trafficking was a record for all the time of available statistics. A total of 442 such sentences were passed in half a year.
In February of this year, «Verstka» calculated that over three years of war, returning from the front «SVO veterans» killed and maimed more than 750 people, and this is only open data. At least 378 people died, and another 376 — received life-threatening serious injuries.
* Recognized in Russia as a «foreign agent».