Above: Ukrainian Army deserters and prisoners of war. See Firsthand: A Meeting With Ukrainian POWs and Ukrainian Deserters Fighting for Russia
Ellie Cook – Newsweek Dec 1, 2024
The number of Ukrainian soldiers deserting their positions has soared in 2024, according to a new report, as Kyiv contends with persistent Russian advances and uncertainty over what the new year will hold for its war effort.
More Ukrainian soldiers deserted between January and the end of October this year than in the previous two years of full-scale war with Russia, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.
Kyiv prosecutors opened 60,000 cases against soldiers for leaving their positions between the start of the year and October, according to the report, totaling nearly twice the number in 2022 and 2023 combined.
Over 100,000 soldiers have been charged for desertion since February 2022, The Associated Press reported late last month, citing Ukraine’s prosecutor general’s office. Newsweek has reached out to the Ukrainian military for comment via email.
Throughout 2024, Moscow has made significant gains in Ukraine’s east, advancing at its fastest pace since the early weeks of the war and claiming key settlements like Avdiivka, a former Ukrainian stronghold in the eastern Donetsk region, in February. The Kremlin is now threatened Pokrovsk, a strategic hub for Ukrainian troops not far from the Donetsk border with the neighboring Dnipropetrovsk region.
Russia and Ukraine, nearly three years into the all-out war effort, have both struggled to add new recruits to their armed forces.
[That is simply not true. While the Ukrainian Army may be struggling to find sufficient numbers of recruits the Russian Army is not. In fact since 2022 the Russian Army has grown in size on three separate occasions on Putin’s orders.
The last time Putin ordered the Russian Armed forces to expand was in Sept 2024, when he ordered the size of the Russian army to be increased by 180,000 troops to 1.5 million active servicemen, making it the second largest in the world after China’s. Ed.]
A senior Washington administration official said last week that Kyiv should weigh up lowering its mobilization age to as young as 18 to quickly funnel more troops into its military. Lowering the draft age is highly controversial, and Ukraine pulled down the age of draft-eligible men from 27 to 25 in April.
Dmytro Lytvyn, Ukrainian President Zelensky’s communication adviser, said in a post to social media that it “doesn’t make sense” that Kyiv was facing calls to lower the mobilization age “presumably in order to draft more people, when we can see that previously announced equipment is not arriving on time.”
“Because of these delays, Ukraine lacks weapons to equip already mobilized soldiers,” Lytvyn said.
“We cannot compensate for our partners’ delays in decision-making and supply chains with the lives of our soldiers and of the youngest of our guys,” an unnamed source in Ukraine’s presidential office told Reuters.
“Mobilization and more manpower could make a significant difference at this time as we look at the battlefield today,” the U.S. official said.
It’s not yet clear what president-elect Donald Trump‘s policy toward Ukraine will be once he is inaugurated in January, sweeping back into the White House off the back of promises to cut aid to Ukraine and wrap up the conflict in a single day.
Desertion among Ukraine’s military was one of the main reasons for the loss of the Ukrainian bastion town, Vuhledar, in October, an anonymous officer with Ukraine’s 72nd Brigade told the AP.
“It is clear that now, frankly speaking, we have already squeezed the maximum out of our people,” the officer said.
Ukrainian authorities prefer not to press charges against soldiers who abandon their posts, only doing so if the fighters do not return, three Ukrainian military officers and a spokesperson for Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigation law enforcement agency told the AP.
Yea they don’t want to do the killing and the dying for the kikes anymore and who can blame them?.
the current bloodshed in syria is said to be by pro democracy supporters known as Free Idlib looking for regime change
This is a lie, all terrorist organisations Al Nusra Patriotic Front Al Quada Muslim brotherhood etc
are Israeli/CIA creations, ask yourself why they attack everyone but israel ?
They are paid mercenaries paid by your tax dollars
Just a general comment about large numbers of people reported in various conditions e.g. dead, deserters, and wounded etc. in any war “theatre”…
How can anyone trust ANY source? We know about the “six million”, but maybe other numbers reported of various atrocities are just pulled out of the air?
In a war it is said the first causality is truth. It is conceivable that one “side” or another might try and mislead for propaganda purposes?
Hell, once you realize its a staged coordinated prolonged war, organized by the Zionist-Commie rulers of Russia & Ukraine solely to waste millions of white soldiers/civilians, then anyone with a brain would desert.
Ukrainians are a mad race.
First they go to war with Russia because a foreign power gives them money and weapons.
Then they prosecute normal people who don’t want to fight in this horrible war of attrition.
No one shoots Zelensky and takes him out? Not even his staff? Madness.
Ukraine has been destroyed it is a failed state. We will see what Ziowhore Trump the rabbinic ass licker does next.
Attn DUMB Yanks, THICK Brits, Euro FckTards
Take a GOOD look at that top photo.
Those are the faces of poor souls – and another few hundred thousand like them! – that YOUR “Duly Elected” (((Governments))) have wilfilly condemed to Death!
It “has nothing to do with me” you say?
Well… I suggest you digest what sort of Karma/Payback/Come-Uppance Karma has in store for YOU… as per Deagel’s ‘ Population Forecasts’ for the upcoming year… which is now only weeks away…
Tick.. tick… tock… Cuckoo!!!
All of them should unite to overthrown the corrupt bankster-appointed Zelensky regime. Over 600,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been slaughtered in the Russian meatgrinder which is a ten-to-one ration of the Russian deaths. This wicked war is a totally contrived one between the evil forces running the West AND Russia. If the US-UK-Israeli AXIS OF EIVIL can run Assad out of Syria now, then despite all of the shock and awe of the battles, and the BS media, the evidence will clearly show that the carving up of the Ukraine with Russia was totally planned. Russia is to retain the Crimea the four Russian-speaking Ukrainian oblasts on the Russian border, and the West gets the rest for minerals and to control the bread basket of much of Africa and the EU. Israel will get a US-UK-Israeli friendly government in Syria.
Wars and killing masses of people theses days are necessary pretexts so that the people will believe that the solutions offered by the visible powers are necessary. Otherwise the plans and solutions of the dark lords of the money power behind the scenes would not be acceptable to the people most affected. Covid proved this, and to get the plandemic going they needed real deaths from it, and real deaths associated with unique symptoms more lethal than the variations of the regular Coronaviruses making its yearly rounds.
Those, like Yeadon, who say there was no virus are quite obvioulsy controlled opposition. The dark lords have numerous legal defences to their planned vaccines (and they were PLANNED and ready to go before they let go the virus), and the worst they will ever face will be in some cases suits under the heading of “gross negligence”. However, the wheels were turning for compo right after they started jabbing people. What there is absolutely no “LEGAL DEFENSE FOR” is the evidence of the deliberate US engineering of the Covid virus over twenty years ago, its selection and deliberate use by the PLANDEMIC planners. It was an engineered Coronavirus strain strong enough to cause enough deaths to sustain the plandemic hype.
Even Vernon Coleman is very soft on the existence of the virus, saying it does not matter if the virus existed or not, as the real crimes are with the vaccines. Discounting and ignoring the evidence of the actual pandemic planning (INCLUDING ALL OF THE PLANNING AND READINESS) for the lockdowns and suppressions, and to think they would rely on an variety of different flu and cold symptoms making the rounds, and nothing with more unique and serious symptoms, especially for the most vulnerable, IS ABSOLUTELY ABSURD.
No, the vaccine jabbings are beyond negligence and are CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY – BEACUSE they were created following and then in conjunction with the US-controlled gain-of-function trials with the SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) virus. After 2015 the mRNA vaccines were PLANNED to be used for the final punch to the immune systems of the non-essential masses, as well as to enrichen and ensure the loyalty of all of those in the top-down chain of command implementing the official script and faithful to the planning. That is the way things are done in the thoroughly corrupt West.
With the mRNA animal-experiment trials the evidence was all very negative (AS FAR AS WE KNOW) but the certainty remained that there was no known vaccine effective for any Coronavirus and not even the the Covid-19 one which came out of Fort Detrick over 20 years ago. Obvioulsy, there were experiments with the mRNA vaccines and Covid 19 before 2020, but to reveal them would show they were being tested with respect to the Covid-19 bioweapon virus before its release in late 2019, and they also would show that the vaccines were in any case completely useless to stop the spread or to protect anyone.
The facts are that viruses do exist and the SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) virus is a US bioweapon virus, selected to be released on us in order to kick off the planned 2020 pandemic, and that it was used for that purpose with the total complicity of the establishment-controls of our government leaders. The evidence is that the death numbers from the virus were grossly exaggerated and the exaggerations came about when the death numbers from the deliberate spreading of the virus came in at less than 1/4 of that which was expected. That is also why they suppressed the known treatment protocols for serious flu symptoms such as HCQ, Chloroquine, and Ivermectin treatment protocols were systematically supressed in all of our nations in 2020, and thereafter, by this very same globalist and thoroughly evil octopus. The cures were suppressed in sone cases to inflate death numbers and maintain the scare and to make way for the alleged “necessity” of the very planned vaccines to make everyone “safe”.
How can anyone in their right mind believe that the carving up of the Ukraine was not planned and executed by the same absolute bastards?
you know this nico x poster makes most sense on site
they had arms . they should kill their commanders !
stupid slaves !
once the roman legionaries were real warriors + made
uprising if they did not trust their chiefs .
NUTENYAHUS CARPET BOMBING KILLS 33 ISRAELI HOSTAGES
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/12/03/738378/Israel-33-captives-killed-Gaza-Hamas-warni
why should they not go awol ?
why die for the jews
they want the land cleared for when israel gets nuked
BTW turkey could still jump either way
but speaking to turks in the UK the recent news that israel wants turkey cleared
has really angered them, it may be that turkey willdestroy israel ?
all Rothschild/Rockefeller/Vanguard/Blackrock Plutocrates,
B´naiB´rit, ADL, Soros, Zelensky,herodian childslaughterer
Satanjahu, euthanasist Bill Gates, A Bourla, Biden, jew media,
highgrade masons SHOULD BE KILLED ! NO KANDAROO COURTS !
for the benefice of the world .