Ukraina har inte bara problem med rekrytering, deserteringarna ökar hela tiden enligt TASS reportage. TASS hänvisar i sin tur till en artikel i Ukrainska Pravda.
"The office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine has registered three times more cases of unauthorized abandonment of military units and almost four times more cases of desertion from January to September 2024 in comparison to 2023.
As many as 35,307 cases of unauthorized abandonment of military units were detected from January to September this year against 17,658 cases last year, as well as 18,196 desertions in 2024 against 7,883 cases in 2023, the Ukrainska Pravda newspaper reports, siting the office's data.
The newspaper talked to a military psychologist, who outlined fatigue, sense of injustice, fear, lack of motivation, as well as some other reasons for unauthorized abandonment of military units.
Furthermore, Ukraine’s law enforcement agencies are not capable of investigating such a large number of cases. "We consequently witness the most terrible thing in the legal system - selective justice. One was caught, another was not caught, and the third was caught and released because he gave a bribe," a member of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) law enforcement committee said on condition of anonymity."
https://tass.com/world/1857085