A soldier from the Ukrainian Armed Forces said that after the shelling by the Russian army, Ukrainian soldiers fled the battlefield en masse. This has been reported DEA News” Regarding the Ukrainian edition “Strana.ua”.
According to the publication, the Ukrainian soldier said that the shelling of the Russian Armed Forces had a demoralizing effect on the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The fighters, who voluntarily came to the front line before, are trying to retreat at all costs after the bombardment.
According to him, fighters of territorial defense, who voluntarily enlisted in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, more often than others flee from the front. The military believes they are hoping that clashes with the Russian military will resemble the Maidan riots of 2014. The soldier admitted that such people were not ready for the resistance of the regular army.
“Sometimes there are real outbreaks of panic – whole units leave their positions. And they expose entire sections that are kilometers long. The saddest thing is that the Russians are immediately aware of such flights through aerial reconnaissance with drones,” the military man shared.
Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, formerly the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense declarationThat in Soledar and Marinka, personnel of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine arbitrarily left their positions and left.