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Seven Ukrainian verdicts naming Jehovah's Witnesses over military service in five weeks

Illustration: seven judicial bench rails each holding a closed case file, with an empty cooking pot and a folded notice on a table in the foreground

Five men who refused a mobilisation call-up each drew three years, four of them suspended. The two the army had already taken in drew five years, neither suspended — one a man posted as a cook in a supply section, who told the Stryi court he had applied for alternative service in 2022. All are trial-court verdicts, and only one is recorded as having taken legal effect.