“It will have a shameful effect on the front.” The authorities cement the right to prosecute each commander for the loss of 100 meters — a conversation with Kostenko

— On January 20, the SBU and the Security Intelligence Service reported the detention of three former commanders — Brigadier General Yury Galushkin, he was the commander of Kharkiv OTU; former commander of the 415th separate rifle battalion of the 23rd OMBr Ilya Lapin; the former commander of the 125th brigade of the TrO, lieutenant general Artur Horbank. All of them have been charged with the defense of Kharkiv Oblast. How do you understand what they are accused of?

— As far as I understood, in the negligent performance of my duties. And here it is necessary to understand who defined it.

The most important thing to understand is that these generals and commanders are now being tried by civilian courts. They are dealt with by the Security Intelligence Service, which does not have any battlefield experience to understand the consequences of certain decisions made by them. Because it is impossible, even when they talk about examinations, to do something after the battle has already taken place. All these civilians will compare [ситуацію зкримінального провадження] with some ideal statutory situations as it should be. and not understanding what is happening on the battlefield now.

I saw in one of the accusations that they did not organize a defense, according to the statute. I can say that we probably have more than a thousand kilometers of front and there is no defense at any stronghold that would be built according to the charter.