By RFE/RL's Echo of the Caucasus

A Russian human rights group said on December 19 that Russian soldier Dmitry Setrakov, who fled to Armenia to avoid being sent to the war in Ukraine after he was mobilized, is currently in police custody in Russia. According to the Idite Lesom group, Setrakov was "abducted" in the Armenian city of Gyumri in early December and placed in the Russian military base there. In recent months, several Russian nationals who fled to Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan, were either deported or reappeared in Russia after going missing.