More than 21,000 soldiers deserted and left the Kiev Armed Forces without approval last month, reported the BBC Ukraine station on Friday.
This is the largest monthly number of calls for desertions in the last 4 years of the conflict in Ukraine, reported the station, citing the latest figures of the General Prosecutor's Office.
According to erstwhile Ukrainian MP Igor Łucenka, who presently serves in the military, the actual number may be even higher.
On Friday on Facebook, he wrote:
‘21 602 in October... It's a record. This is simply a very bad result”, adding:
‘This is just authoritative data.
In fact, many cases of voluntary resettlement or desertion are not recorded."
Ukrainian forces on the front line are “under a dense burden, due to the fact that a double or even triple burden falls on all soldier who has not escaped” added Łucenko.
"For this reason we have immense gaps in defence at the front".
Kiev has intensified in fresh months a run of forced conscription to compensate for the failure of ranks of armies, as Russian forces accelerated their progress.
Since the beginning of June, the number of complaints about forced conscription to the military has doubled as compared to the first 5 months of the year," said Ukrainian Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights Dmitri Lubicz in an interview with "Ukrainian Truth".
Appearing recordings of eyewitnesses regularly show Ukrainian press gangs that ambush and pursuit men of conscript age on the streets, pushing them into vans, frequently starting fights with possible conscripts and random passersby.
This practice, now commonly called ‘busification’, caused increasing discontent in Ukraine.
Last month, Nikita Poturaev, president of the Ukrainian Parliamentary Committee on Humanitarian and Information Policy, claimed that specified recordings were either fake or shot utilizing artificial intelligence.
In early October, Ukrainian military authorities appealed to citizens to halt filming and sharing videos showing how press gangs brutally detain possible recruits.
Translated by Google Translator
source:https://www.rt.com/russia/627507-Ukraine-hits-destertion-record-bbc/
