Interpretermag-sivustolta:
- 400 ukrainalaista sotilasta lähti käpykaartiin
Four Hundred Ukrainian Soldiers Desert Battlefield
17:21 (GMT)
http://www.interpretermag.com/ukrai...senyuk-calls-for-emergency-unsc-meeting/#4004
An entire battalion has given up their heavy weaponry and left the ATO (anti-terrorist operation) zone after falling under attack from Russian Federation forces,
Ukrainska Pravda reports, citing TSN.
Four hundred soldiers from the fifth battalion of the Transcarpathian Territorial Defense deserted from the battlefield and headed for home.
They were stopped near the town of Znamenka in Korovograd Region, and Commander Anatoly Pushnyakov, commander of Ukraine's land forces and Nikolai Golomsha, deputy prosecutor general, personally came to meet them. They urged the soldiers to give up their weapons. The soldiers said they would only do this at their home base. In the end, they agreed to turn over the heavy weapons but took their rifles with them.
The soldiers said they had "been in hell" and fell under heavy artillery fire from Russian forces. They also said they were only going home for rotation and re-grouping, as they had been in the ATO zone for two months.
Semyon Semyonchenko, head of the Donbass Battalion of volunteers, recuperating in the hospital from severe wounds, posted a link to the
Ukrainska Pravda article
on his Facebook page, and commented:
This is what I mean when I demand that precisely volunteers fight. [Defense Minister] Heletey, give us their equipment...