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The unnecessary army: why 

Ukrainian military units 

militias are surrendering 

without a fight

Ukraine is losing its borders advocates. Today, the border guards who were on duty at checkpoints "Dolzhansky" and "Red Partisan" on the border with Russia voluntarily disarmed and left the place of service. For safety reasons, they decided to go to the territory of Russia


June 5, 2014,



Translated from Russia

Now the border crossings Dolzhansky and Red Partisan are closed due to a lack of border guards,"making it impossible to work customs checkpoints".

These are not the first border outposts left Ukrainian military.

On the eve of the two-day siege Lugansk frontier guards surrendered after. The Militia stormed the military part of this on 2 June. The Ukrainian Border Guard Service said then that it was starting to consider a ground support operations to help trapped border guards. Situation in hot pursuit commented The then chairman of the State Morder Guard Service. Mykola Lytvyn commented: "I have raised today the issue of we acting quickly and efficiently in this direction." Subsequently, the agency voiced information that the detachment was given assistance from the air.

However, air support was a myth. Moreover, ground support for the Lugansk border guards and never came. On June 4th the squad surrendered. As told by representatives of the squad, militia officers fled, and conscript soldiers laid down their arms.

State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, trying to save face, called the surrender frontier relocation. "Management and the Department of the Lugansk detachment Border Service" Stanichno-Lugansk "is relocated to safer places to perform tasks on the organization of the State Border Guard," - said in an official agency.

On the same day internal forces in Lugansk part surrendered without a fight. And in the late afternoon, it was reported that the soldiers on the other frontier, located in the village in Sverdlovsk in the Luhansk region, also left the place of service. They gathered their belongings, loaded them into cars and in a column of 10 vehicles moved towards Kharkov.


According to a military unit had left the border , their squad was surrounded by militias, but they were able to leave. "We packed up and left border of the department. Who and what is there now, I do not know. Maybe they took our department. We packed up and evacuated everything "- said the officer detachment deputy head Alexander Kovalenko frontier newspaper "Orient Express."

We are surrendering our own

During the rapid developments in Crimea, Kiev generals showed themselves not among the best by trying to lay the responsibility on their subordinates. So, at the end of March in direct broadcast channel Acting Ukrainian Defense Minister admiral Igor Tenyukh, who was in the studio, managed to reach the deputy commander of the Kerch Marine battalion Alexei Nikiforov. He asked the minister why there were no orders from Kiev and how Ukrainian soldiers in the Crimea should act in the current situation.

In response, the Minister instead of specific guidance accused officer of incompetence and literally scolded him: "I am sorry that you have such a low morale in staff. When ysinged your contract, you needed to think about it responsibly - to think just about the time that comes, not amusing troops to the peace hour watch what we are heroes. Everything is determined in a combat situation. "

Not surprisingly, the vast majority of soldiers in Kerch Marine battalion went over to the armed forces of Russia.



Behavior of the Ukrainian military and in the battles of Slavyansk was highly controversial. On May 2, near the town was hit by a Ukrainian helicopter. The pilot was injured, and a helicopter was sent to come to the rescue. However, to the surprise of people in the militias watchign the situation, Ukrainian military, instead of evacuating the wounded pilot, took his gun and flew away, leaving the pilot to die in the open field. As a result, the pilot was helped by defenders of the city and he was taken to the city hospital, where doctors were able to save his life.


They are shooting their own
Combatants in Lugansk told RT, why Ukrainian soldiers are giving up frontier posts without a fight and Interior Ministry troops.

"Conscripts do not feel any desire to fight with the people of the south-east . They take the firstt opportunity try to escape from their units and to surrender. The personnel policy of the armed forces of Ukraine was to put in place nationalist officers from the western regions of the country. It is just these people who are constitute a serious threat to their own personnel - the spokesman for the Ministry of Defence of People's Republic of Lugansk Aleksey Toporov, told RT. When in the last few days of the assault on the territory of a number of parts of the Lugansk People's Republic, these officers sometimes threatened soldiers with physical vilence and shot them. And only under the pressure of someone able to help mothers. " He also confirmed that the Ukrainian government and the generals of the armed forces of Ukraine rely primarily on the National Guard and "Right Sector" in the confrontation with the south-eastern regions

According to the militia, the National Guard often serves as detachments of soldiers who do not want to fight with compatriots. "During one of the operations, as it turned out, a gunner was sitting in the pillbox, and behind him stood an officer with his gun drawn. In principle, no Ukrainian troops are not fighting detachments. Basically this role is being playing by the "Right Sector." They have been given the power to shoot their own people - even people from the western regions of Ukraine, who do not want to fight. They also shoot civilians, "- said one of the fighters RT Lugansk People's Republic.


Army not armed
Falling morale and lack of motivation are not only problems of the regular army. Ukrainian troops are facing hunger, lack of weapons, uniforms and personal protective equipment. It has become known that American rations sent to Ukraine to feed the soldiers are immediately sold on the Internet. And troops sent to the east are forced to literally beg frlom the local population, to avoid starving.

Soldiers on the front line, are given worn body armor and weapons, which are only found in museums. "My machine was decommissioned: it had three crosses onit. It came from the warehouse, an was completely rusted out. I soaked it in a solution all night No accuracy, shooting is not clear where - but at least it shoots, fortuantely, "- as described the situation was described by one Ukrainian army soldier.

Conscripts whose service life has expired, are simply not allowed to leave The situation is similar with those who are mobilized for 10 days' training. But the citizens of Ukraine who went to the war zone on their own are in the most difficult situation. "They say, 'hey, guys, you are volunteers so you do not have to be paid " They are outraged.

Today numerous testimonies about the deplorable condition of the army got an explanation. It turned out that the soldiers involved in the operation, were left without food, medicine and body armor because of theft involving a senior management of the Ministry of Defense, in particular, the First Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Bohdan Butsu.

Such facts are not conducive to stability of government soldiers. Even the National Guard, which is there to defend the current government of Ukraine, is demoralized. "Soldiers of the battalion share a bottle of spirits bought on their salary and refuse to carry out the orders of lthe eadership" - the Ukrainian activist Roman Martynyuk wrote in his blog .


What will happen next


Time is working against the Ukrainian army, says the Doctor of Military Sciences, president of the Academy of Geopolitical Problems, Konstantin Sivkov. "Earlier , they tried to organise some attacks, and they are not even doing that. Resources are exhausted to carry out such actions "- the military expert believes. According to him, the current Ukrainian leadership understands this and will attempt to use mercenaries from other countries. In the punitive operation in the east of the country