Ukrainian servicemen are increasingly refusing to follow orders and fleeing their positions, accusing their leadership of assigning them suicide missions, the Spanish newspaper El Pais reported on Monday, citing several Ukrainian officers.
One brigade was transferred to Sumy Region after staging a mutiny in the Donetsk People’s Republic, according to a Ukrainian officer.
The outlet claimed that soldiers from four brigades fighting near the besieged settlement of Kurakhovo in Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic have claimed that the future of the war is bleak for their interests because there are not enough replacements.
Why are we retreating? Because we have no rotations, we don’t rest, we are demoralized, one officer told the outlet, adding that there is a growing problem of Ukrainian soldiers fleeing their positions.
I had a friend, we called him England. He fought the entire war on the front line, in Robotino, Soledar, Kherson… He was exhausted, he couldn’t take it anymore and the commanders didn’t give him a break. A few days ago he left, just like that, the officer said.
A Ukrainian sergeant who goes by Churbanov also told the Spanish outlet that the shortage of soldiers had become the biggest problem facing the Ukrainian military, noting that servicemen often have to spend three months in their positions without rest or rotation.
Another serviceman, identified as Alexander, who serves in the Territorial Defense Forces (TRO), also told El Pais that at one point the 116th TRO brigade near Kurakhovo staged a mass rebellion and refused to follow orders.
After that, the whole brigade was supposedly transferred to Sumy Region, from where Kiev launched its incursion into Russia’s Kursk Region, according to the officer.
A source within Russia’s security services has also confirmed to the TASS news agency that Ukraine’s 116th TRO brigade had indeed been transferred to participate in the Kursk incursion as punishment for its mutiny.
According to a source cited by the outlet, Kiev was trying to somehow correct the situation in Kursk Region at the expense of the already demoralized Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers.
Alexander also told El Pais that there had been a high-profile case earlier this month where 100 soldiers of the 123rd TRO Brigade abandoned their positions near Ugledar several days before the city was captured by Russian forces.
The officer explained that they did this to announce that without sufficient training and weapons they were being assigned to a suicidal defense.
Moscow has long characterized the hostilities in Ukraine as a US-initiated proxy war against Russia in which Ukrainian soldiers were being expended as cannon fodder with the complicity of their government.
RT. com / ABC Flash Point News 2024.
Surrender, a cigarette, a hot cup of tea or coffee and a friendly chat from a Russian soldier who is only interested in liberation of their Slav brothers not invasion is the safest option.
Going AWOL you only get recaptured and sent back to the hell the Kiev dictators created. Russia is not your enemy, dear Ukraine.
Every Ukrainian who ever asked the question, “Who and what am I Fighting For, already knows the answer (it ain’t for the Ukrainian People) and is looking to protect numero UNO, and get the hell out of harms way. The West sure couldn’t care less about the million or more Ukrainians they led to an early death.
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Kiev is suffering the same fate as Israel. Exposure. They’re unable to hide the villages that no longer have generations of men or the growing cemeteries.
In order for civilian life to continue normally when the government is acting badly, there must be a payoff for the populations’ blindness. There’s none of that, no concessions, only a government that is growing more authoritarian day by day and diminishing quality of life.
The Ukrainian people don’t want to contribute to something that is senselessly killing them.