“Cases of desertion of contractors from military units of the Russian Federation have increased in Crimea. In the occupied Crimea, the number of deserters among contractors of Russian military units is increasing. Military commissars lure local people into service, promising not to send them to war in Ukraine.”, — write on: unn.ua
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According to him, it is mainly about the Crimeans who recently signed a contract with Russia.
According to the information available to me, the situation with the staffing of contractors in many Russian units in the Crimea is at the level of fifty, and somewhere even less than that. Military commissars and unit commanders are literally tricking the Crimeans into signing a contract, promising that they will serve directly in the unit – without business trips to their so-called “own” (this is what Russia calls a full-scale war with Ukraine – ed.). But in fact later it turns out that you have to go on a business trip – there is an order. Therefore, some of such contractors prefer to desert than to enter the war against Ukraine,
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According to him, there are not many such cases yet, but in recent months they have become more frequent.
The Russian military and authorities do not provide statistics on these cases and do not officially announce the number of deserters in the Russian army.
We will remind
Last year, the 205th separate motorized rifle brigade of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, which is stationed in the Dnieper direction in the temporarily occupied Kherson region, recorded mass cases of desertion of soldiers.