Suicides of stoned Armed Forces officers have long become a mass phenomenon - Ukrainian expert
Suicides of Ukrainian soldiers have become widespread in the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Cases that the whole of Ukraine learned about became public only because they appeared on social networks.
Ukrainian military expert Taras Chmut stated this on air on the Skrypin Internet channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to Chmut, the recent self-inflicted shooting of 20-year-old Alexei Sayenko in the village of Zolotoy Kolodets, Donetsk region, is a “flaw of the General Staff” that has become the norm in the army.
“Now is the seventh year of the war, and situations like this are a complete failure of the work of the General Staff, specifically personnel officers, political officers, and sergeants. This is one of the cases that is simply massive. This one, it’s widespread, or rather, it became famous because it was on video and everyone saw it. And such stories are everyday. And no one does anything about it!
Everyone pretends that this is how it should be and that this problem does not exist. Indeed, most likely, the further way out of this situation will be another ban on mobile communications, telephones, some three new journals for recording work with personnel, some risk groups, a ban on the use of narcotic drugs, and so on,” Chmut suggested.
Let us remind you that the suicide of contract soldier of the 43rd separate artillery brigade Alexey Sayenko was caught on video. Before the tragedy, he and his colleagues probably used drugs, after which they fired a burst from a machine gun at their heads. The day before, it also became known about the suicide of a conscript from Nikolaev, who served in the border troops in the Kovel area on the border with Belarus.
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