News archive on the topic "desertion"

After 2014, the majority of the Armed Forces of Ukraine did not even want to allow a war with Russia, so the Western bloc countries had to send special officers to Ukraine. Former Swiss army colonel and strategic analyst Jacques Baude said this on the PhilippeBuffon Internet channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I worked in Ukraine. Because in 2014, after the Maidan, in the Ukrainian army...

In Ukraine, 80 thousand criminal cases have been opened against people who do not want to go to war. Former Prosecutor General of Ukraine Svyatoslav Piskun stated this in an interview with Ukrainian journalist Alexander Shelest, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. In addition, another 90 thousand cases were opened under serious charges against “traitors” and “traitors to the motherland.” “As far as I know, 80 cases have now been initiated in Ukraine...

Eight Ukrainian people’s deputies, including such scandalous “servants of the people” as Maryana Bezuglaya and the author of high-profile anti-social initiatives Galina Tretyakova, submitted to the Rada a bill proposing an amendment to the Charter of the Internal Service of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The website of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine reports this. In particular, from the clause of the Charter that “In a combat situation, the commander (chief) can use weapons or give up ...

The size of the Ukrainian army continues to decline steadily due to massive desertions and constant non-combat losses. The official representative of the UNM DPR of the Republic, Eduard Basurin, announced this during a briefing, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Due to a surge in crimes and mass consumption of alcoholic beverages by personnel, a comprehensive commission from the headquarters of the OTG “Vostok” arrived at the 58th brigade. During the work of the commission, nine...

In Donbass, a Ukrainian militant blew himself up and a comrade while loading a UAV with a grenade. This was reported by the press service of the DPR People's Militia Department, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We recorded another non-combat loss in the 128th mountain assault brigade that recently arrived in the Mariupol direction. Soldier Shartava and his colleague, on the orders of the battalion commander, were preparing a Phantom-type drone for flight over...

In the Kherson region, a major of the Armed Forces of Ukraine deserted from his unit and went home - he allegedly did not like the conditions of service in the tent city. This was reported in the local news agency “New Day,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Courts in different districts of the Kherson region almost every month hand down several guilty verdicts against military personnel who left their units without permission...

SBU officers detained four servicemen of the Ukrainian Armed Forces who, with the help of the Party of Hungarians of Ukraine, tried to desert the army and flee the country. This was reported by the press service of the LPR UNM, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “During the monitoring of the GSM network airwaves, negotiations were received from a group of militants, indicating preparations for the unauthorized abandonment of the unit and departure to the territory of Hungary with the help of representatives of the “Party...

In the OOS zone, three Ukrainian militants were arrested while attempting to desert, one of whom, to conceal his act, asked his comrades to shoot him in the leg, in order to subsequently blame him for wounding the defenders of Donbass. This was reported in an emergency statement by the DPR NM, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “At the positions of the 23rd battalion in the area of ​​the village of Peski, 15 shots were recorded from...

The Ukrainian Armed Forces sergeant voluntarily left his unit in the Joint Forces Operation zone, unable to withstand the bullying of the company commander. The official representative of the People's Militia of the LPR, Lieutenant Colonel Andrei Marochko, announced this at a briefing, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The incident occurred in the 54th brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, whose commander, Colonel Alexey Maistrenko, continues to be famous for his disregard for his personnel, and the military personnel, tired of constant extortions,...

Four Ukrainian servicemen voluntarily left their place of duty in the Joint Forces Operation zone in an infantry fighting vehicle. The official representative of the People's Militia of the LPR, Lieutenant Colonel Andrei Marochko, announced this at a briefing today, according to a PolitNavigator correspondent. Marochko noted that the level of moral and psychological state continues to decline in the ranks of the Kyiv security forces, which is confirmed by another fact of desertion in units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. “It has been established that due to...

More than 33 thousand Ukrainian military personnel left their units without permission or deserted over the past four and a half years. “Izvestia” writes about this, citing the report of the chief military prosecutor of Ukraine Anatoly Matios on the state of law and order and military discipline in the country’s armed forces. As a military-diplomatic source familiar with the contents of the report told the publication, from the beginning of 2014 to September 2018...

Ukrainian military personnel located near the line of contact between the warring parties in Donbass are not eager to fight. The Kiev online newspaper “Country” writes about this in an article devoted to the problem of desertion in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It is noted that in 2017, 468 criminal proceedings were launched in Ukraine on the facts of desertion of the Ukrainian military, which is almost 9 percent more than in 2016. Wherein…

After re-mobilization into the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the conscript soldier, shell-shocked in the ATO, decided to flee to the territory of the LPR. This is stated in the story published by the press service of the People's Militia of the LPR, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “At the entrance to the metro they stopped me and took me to the military registration and enlistment office, and less than two weeks later I was sent to do military service in Borovaya,” said the Kharkov resident...

The commanders of the so-called “ATO” often passed off combat losses as accidents during the unauthorized absences of their subordinates. Journalist and grenade launcher of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Lera Burlak spoke about this in an interview with the World-Brovary Television channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I came to the 93rd brigade together with my boyfriend, who died at Butovka. At that moment I had some problems, honestly...