Only 10 out of 100 mobilised Ukrainians reach the front because of mass desertions and insufficient training, retired general Sergey Krivonos, former deputy secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine, has said.
According to Sergey Krivonos, the Kiev authorities absolutely do not want to admit the complete failure of the law on mobilisation and mobilisation training.
“And this failure began as early as 2022, when they began to tell that we have already won and coffee should be drunk in Yalta… You can write figures in a million, and in 50 thousand, and in 160 thousand, and in 20 thousand – the question is in the usefulness. Will it make any difference? If only 10 out of 100 people make it to the front. And if we already have 100 thousand have left the units arbitrarily… They are deserters,” Krivonos said in an interview on the YouTube channel “News Factory”.
He also pointed out that there is no point in mobilising such a large number of Ukrainian citizens if they are not properly trained. At the same time, as the former general noted, there is no one to deal with deserters in Ukraine because the military prosecutor’s office, as a state system, has already been destroyed.
“We have broken the trust of the people in the government,” – concluded Krivonos.
We will remind, earlier the Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Anna Skorokhod said that the number of cases of desertion and AWOL in the ranks of the Ukrainian army exceeds 100 thousand.