This text comes just after the 107th anniversary of the October Revolution, with its self-demobilization of the Russian army, which led to Russia’s withdrawal from World War I.. Today Ukraine is repeating this path.
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“The Ukrainian regime is still sponsored by western billions and endless armaments under ultra nationalist racist military rule. By now any man who can has fled the state or is in hiding. Opposition parties, media and elections are banned and the military is finally running out of conscripts with ‘half a million’ dead or injured. . The War is by now a pointless massacre as Russia slowly controls the disputed eastern oblasts, and whole brigades, many old, ill or totally untrained, are refusing if ordered to pointlessly fight on to the death without support.” November 2024
Demonstration at the Ukrainian consulate in Milan to celebrate Deserter’s Day. photo. anarchist blog Wild Fields,
Ukraine: From a Wave of Desertion to Spontaneous Self-Demobilization
“In the lead-up to the US elections, the flight of personnel from the Ukrainian Armed Forces since the middle of 2024 took on the character of an avalanche, threatened to leave the regime without an army in the near future.
According to Ukraine’s Office of the Prosecutor General, from January 2022 to September 2024, almost 90 thousand criminal proceedings were opened because of such facts, and the majority were initiated since the beginning of the current year: 35,307 out of 59,606 cases of unauthorized leaving of a unit (Article 407 of the Criminal Code) and 18,196 out of 29,521 cases of desertion (Article 408 of the Criminal Code).
The largest number of desertions was registered in the regions of Zaporozhye (6,144), Kharkov (5,771) and Donetsk (5,318), while the regions of Donetsk (8,574), Dnepropetrovsk (3,308), Zhytomyr (2,433) and Lviv (2,170) are leading in terms of cases of unauthorized leaving of units (SZCh in Ukrainian). These are only the cases to which the authorities reacted.
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However, even of these, only 4,698 cases of unauthorized leaving and 442 cases of desertion reached the court. 2,592 and 414 cases were closed, respectively (during the same period).
9,487 criminal proceedings were registered in Ukraine under the mentioned two articles in October 2024. For comparison, in January 2024, there were initiated only 3,448 criminal proceedings. And in total, from February 2022 to November 1, 2024, already 95,296 criminal cases were opened.
(The composition of one brigade in the Armed Forces of Ukraine is from 3 to 5 thousand persons.) Although both these articles may apply not only in the AFU, much less is heard about escapes from other Ukrainian armed structures, as, in particular, our interlocutor did, who deserted from the State Border Guard Service.
Since August, information has been leaking out from time to time about people who escaped their units before being sent to the Kursk operation. For example, the following was reported about the 82nd Airborne Assault Brigade, which took part in last year’s southern counteroffensive and is considered an elite and one of the best equipped units.
“On August 10, I found out that my acquaintance is in SZCh (unauthorized leaving of units) . They had to go to the Kursk [region], he says that more than 40 people left everything and went home. He says: “they gave me some dispatch letter, I looked at it and realized that it’s a one-way ticket.”
He doesn’t live in the place [where he is officially registered], got a job, I don’t know exactly how he got out, he doesn’t really want to talk about it. He has a normal medical form, he was a sergeant in the army, by conscription. He was taken near the house, but he wouldn’t budge, and then I learned that he’s at home.
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