signaling the problem in the context of the safety of Poles and the Polish state
"They were not locked in camps": Ukrainian recruits deserted during training in France
"As can be seen in the above 20H report, they have received extended training in France. For 9 weeks, French soldiers gave their cognition to Ukrainian soldiers to form a full brigade called “Anna of Kiev”. But nothing went as planned on the front. It is said that more than 1,000 soldiers have already deserted Ukraine. There were already 50 of them who fled to France during the training period in late 2024.
Thus reveals Ukrainian writer Yuri Butusov, who condemns the bad choices of his country. "Most deserters are civilians who have never undergone training in Ukraine," he explains in TF1. "They are people with motivation, they are good people, but that does not make them soldiers," he says.
How did they escape? There were 2,300 Ukrainian soldiers stationed in French barracks. The place where they slept was surrounded by fences and barbed wire to defend them. According to TF1, a twelve French people took care of their safety. Did the deserters escape their attention at night? Or did they take the exercise to escape?
As for the French army, we remember that the mission was to train Ukrainians, not monitor them. "When these units arrived for training in France, they were not locked in camps, soldiers could have moved at night," recalls General Jérôme Pellistrandi. "These are individual actions in a very tiny proportion," he said. akin cases were reported in training camps in Poland – the Financial Times revealed. France has invested over EUR 100 million in arms transportation for the brigade. Including 18 Caesar's cannon in action on the east front, including the most deadly conflict”
War in Ukraine: According to the French general staff of respective twelve Ukrainian soldiers trained in France deserted
‘ The French Army, which trained the Ukrainian brigade in France before it went to the front, stated on Monday 6 January that it had noted a "several" defection during training after the Ukrainian commander mentioned "problems" in this unit. "There has been a number of desertions, but they are very marginal, given the number of people trained," said AFP authoritative of the French General Staff.
According to him, trained soldiers were subject to “the government (...) imposed by Ukrainian command”. However, "we do not criminalize desertion in France," he stressed. “If individual deserted, the French prosecutor had no right to arrest that person. And the right granted to the Ukrainian authorities on French dirt is only a disciplinary law."
Ukrainian army admits to “problems”
On Monday, the commander of Ukrainian land troops Mikhail Drapaty spoke about “problems” in this brigade after press reports of abuses of power and desertion. "Where possible, all these problems are solved," he continued, ensuring that the number of desertions of soldiers trained in France is "minimum".
"I do not realize what can be described as an abuse of power," said the chief of the French General Staff. "In any event, there are no reports of Ukrainians stationing in France or what happened during these training sessions". He stressed that the training took place “in line with the Ukrainians’ wishes for “equipment, time and level of training”.
Several twelve Ukrainian soldiers of the 155th Mechanized Brigade deserted during training in France, reported the AFP agency, citing an worker of the French army. At the same time, the AFP pointed out that in December the Ukrainian writer wrote a report, which indicated that about 1.7 1000 soldiers withdrew from the service in the “Anna Kyiv” brigade. Ukrainians admit that specified a problem exists.
The AFP talker pointed out that the French prosecutor has no right to prosecute the deserter, and Ukraine can only punish him disciplinaryly. In total, the French trained 2.3 1000 soldiers from the “Anna Kiev” brigade, most of them being drafts without combat experience. The remaining 2.2 1000 individual members were trained in Ukraine, writes AFP.
At least 10% of Ukrainian soldiers desert from military training in Poland. This is the consequence of information from sources in the armed forces revealed by the diary of the Legal Gazette. any Ukrainians most likely plan training in Poland on intent due to the fact that they presume escape in advance.
On Wednesday, AFP reported the desertion of respective twelve Ukrainians during military training in France. In general, about 1.7 1000 soldiers withdrew from the “Anna Kiev” brigade trained there, according to a study presented in December by a Ukrainian journalist.
It turns out that the problem of desertion besides exists in Poland, where Ukrainian soldiers train as part of the EUMAM (European Union Military Assistance Mission Ukraine) mission. From autumn 2022 until the end of 2024, about 13 1000 Ukrainians were trained in Poland. According to sources of the ‘DGP’, 1 tenth of them could have deserted.
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It is besides unclear what happens to refugees. According to a Polish military informant, many of them are likely to enter Germany and another countries. A akin situation exists in France. A talker of the AFP agency admitted that the prosecutor there has no right to prosecute the deserter, and Ukraine can only punish him disciplinaryly.
Ukrainian soldiers are trained, among others, at the Poznań Center for the Training of Land Forces. To Poznań are transported by bus. On the border, Poles take over from Ukrainians. Training takes place in the barracks system. According to the sources of the "DGP", about 10% of soldiers deliberately want to train in our country, due to the fact that it is easier to escape here. So they choose this alternatively of illegally crossing the Ukrainian border."
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Above I post a brief message from fresh accounts documenting the conduct of desertions.
However, questions arise:
1. Whether these are real desertions caused by the reluctance to act as cannonball meat on the front of the alleged SOW, which after almost 3 years of war can besides be considered as a planned action to clean up the areas of Ukraine mainly from young, Slavic men, in the vast majority of ethnically Russian (whether Ukrainian or Russian).
2. Can it be excluded that the alleged "unseen deserters" are staff of secretly prepared "terrorism peculiar groups" intended to destabilise the situation in Poland, Western Ukraine and Belarus"?
3. Does Polish military intelligence monitor and analyse the phenomenon of desertion itself and have cognition of “diserts”?
4.Who in Poland is liable for the alleged "unidentified and unmonitored" defection of Ukrainian soldiers in Polish military units?
5.Are Polish military authorities and services in contact with the French and German, Austrian, Czech...etc. to guarantee that "trained deserters from France" do not enter Poland?
PZ
( Choice and crowd. PZ)
