“The situation in the 155th mechanized brigade became public on December 31, when journalist Yuriy Butusov wrote about it”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“There have been some desertions, but they remain very small considering the number of people who have been trained,” a French army official told the agency.
The situation in the 155th mechanized brigade became public on December 31, when journalist Yuriy Butusov wrote about it. According to him, even before the first battle, the unit arbitrarily left more than a thousand mobilized, the commander of the brigade was dismissed, and one of the leaders responsible for the formation of the brigade died of a heart attack.
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According to the results of the meeting with the commanders of the unmanned systems units, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksandr Syrskyi, said that “he paid special attention to building the capabilities of the unmanned systems unit of the 155th mechanized brigade, as well as to problematic issues that need to be solved.” This was stated in his telegram post on January 5.
Syrskyi did not specify which problematic issues are being discussed.
On the night of January 5, journalist Yuriy Butusov wrote that, according to Censor.NET sources, President Volodymyr Zelenskyi heard information about the situation in the 155th mechanized brigade at the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, and declared that he was taking the investigation under personal control.
Butusov noted that the president was most interested in “the circumstances of the desertion in France of several dozen servicemen of the brigade and the voluntary abandonment of part of 1,700 servicemen during the formation of the brigade in Ukraine.”
“At this time, the 155th mechanized brigade continues to heroically defend Pokrovsk, despite great difficulties. For some reason, the brigade took away its main striking force – a division of the latest 155-mm “Caesar” guns, and gave it to another brigade,” Butusov emphasized in the same post.
At the same time, President of Ukraine Zelenskyi reported in the evening briefing on January 4 that he listened to Sirsky’s report on the situation at the front, but did not mention the meeting of the Headquarters and did not comment on the events surrounding the 155th brigade.