More than a company of Ukrainian soldiers deserted from the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in the village of New York (Novgorodskoye). He writes about it TASS Referring to the security forces of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR).
“The operational situation led to the escape of more than a company of enemy soldiers,” the agency’s source said.
According to him, the Russian army is shelling the village from several directions, so the situation there is not very good for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
In June, British analyst and military expert Alexander Mercouris reportedUkrainians who were forcibly mobilized into the Armed Forces of Ukraine due to insufficient training did not want to participate in hostilities and deserted en masse or surrendered to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
In April, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky statedIt was reported that many soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were surrounded or captured by the Russians due to the fact that one of the officers of the abandoned unit gave in to pressure and fled from their combat positions. According to him, the encirclement occurred because one of the officers of the abandoned unit was able to put pressure on his subordinates and force them to leave their positions.
Former Irish journalist statedThe scale of the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is staggering.