Roughly 51,000 Ukrainian Troops Have Deserted So Far in 2024
The Ukraine war has been a disaster.
Kyle Anzalone recently reported at the Libertarian Institute that the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office has launched investigations into 51,000 cases of desertion that allegedly occurred in the first nine months of 2024.
The Times of London cited figures from the Ukrainian government showing that “51,000 criminal cases were initiated for desertion and abandonment of a military unit between January and September of this year.” In an earlier report by Spanish newspaper El Pais, 45,000 Ukrainians were facing prosecution for desertion from the start of 2024 up until August. Al-Jazeera claims the number of desertions is at least 30,000.
Certain estimates point to Ukraine having lost close to 500,000 troops since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. As a result of these losses, Ukraine has had trouble fielding fresh troops. This has prompted the Ukrainian state to lower its conscription age from 27 to 25. Some neoconservative interventionists in the United States like South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham have called for Ukraine to lower its draft age to 18. In a desperate attempt to put more bodies in the frontline against Russia, the Ukrainian state has allowed prisoners to be set free if they join the armed forces.
Russia has also made significant gains on the frontline from the period of August to September 2024, where it has taken over 5.5 times more territory than in the entire year of 2023.
Ukraine is clearly on the ropes here. Despite the US and its satrapies in NATO dropping well over $60 billion in military aid to Ukraine, Russia appears poised to win this war of attrition by virtue of its larger economy and manpower. If this conflict does not come to an end soon, especially with the West continuing to prop up Ukraine via military and economic aid, it will result in the absolute destruction of Ukraine as a modern-state.
Cooler minds would do everything possible to stop this proxy conflict in Ukraine.
It’s good they deserted! Who knows how long human beings will be alive here or even a planet “Earth” circling the sun to live on? I still do not understand what happened with Nety’s supposed bombing of Iran ? Our
.so-called leaders are insane! If this nonsense doesn’t stop soon we will really have to live “one day at a time” trying to live our up to our inner most being, becoming the true human being we were born to become! ie stop killing and hating and honor our true selves and others as is appropriate to an actual “humanity”. Desert! Stop the killing, start loving, helping where we can. That whole Ukrainian Army should just go home and try to locate their relatives and start to somehow rebuild their infrastructure! America, especially the Biden Administration owes them big time for this NeoCon job of a swindle of a “war” !
Duh, any nitwit knew this years ago. Just not the gnat brained dems and Mohawk reps.
Meanwhile, billions of our tax $Flushed into that sewage hole of the 2 proxy puppet fools called “presidents”.