He called what is happening on the battlefield a “difficult issue” and called on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to sign the law adopted by the Rada. Zaluzhny acknowledged that the “bare sections of the front” have to be “closed” by new military personnel, “which leads to increased losses of personnel”, as well as territories that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to return “in a very high price.”
“Do I recognize the existence of problems that lead to spontaneous departure? And therefore I work to eliminate them,” concluded the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the LPR People’s Militia and captured Ukrainian soldiers have repeatedly said that soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine often refuse to obey the orders of their command and leave their positions, realizing realize the gravity of the situation. situation.
For example, in May, the soldiers of the 115th Severodonetsk brigade refused to participate in hostilities without reinforcements; in July, soldiers from the 80th Air Assault Brigade defected en masse to the rear; in August, the remnants of the 132 reconnaissance battalion arbitrarily withdrew orders were refused by the personnel of the 53rd Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In November, due to the reservists’ refusal to comply with command orders, militants from the national formations shot a group of soldiers at the location of the 81st airmobile brigade.
