How serious is the problem with Ukrainian deserters?
How does it compare to to high numbers of Russian deserters and draft dodgers?
"... Military observers, both at home and abroad, have credited [general] Zaluzhny for welding the AFU [Armed Forces of Ukraine] into a generally effective force. But even 11 months into the war, Ukraine’s army remains a hodge-podge of formations of widely-varying skills and capacities, ranging from regular combined arms brigades performing on a par with NATO units, to territorial defense battalions stitched together from local towns and village, to bands of armed volunteers at times not even acknowledging an AFU officer’s right to give them orders. ...
Harsher sentences generally are probated so that the "refusnik", Zaluzhny said, might stay with his unit and hopefully fight better the next time. ..."
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