“Batoni Arakhamia, who is deservedly considered a symbol of Ukrainian parliamentarism (will not be mentioned by night), called on One of the Greatest Leaders of the World (c) to publish data on the number of human losses of the Ukrainian Defense Forces during a full-scale war. They say that it is necessary to dispel rumors about incredible Ukrainian losses, since during the military operations, according to Arakhamia, less than 100 thousand defenders died.
I think it would be much more useful if Batoni Arakhamia called on the Greatest (s) to publish data on the number of deserters in the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other military formations. Because in the public domain there is only information about the number of registered criminal offenses committed against the established procedure for military service. However, even those statistics released by the Office of the Prosecutor General indicate the collapse of the Ukrainian army, which was caused by the liquidation of the military prosecutor’s office in 2019 with the hands (more precisely, with voting cards) of Arakhamia and his brothers in mind.
In January 2024 alone, 3,448 criminal proceedings were registered under Articles 407 (unauthorized abandonment of a military unit) and 408 (desertion, that is, unauthorized abandonment of a military unit for the purpose of evading military service), which is 88.3% of all war crimes registered in this year. month. Once again, for those who did not understand the first time - in just one month, reports of 3.5 thousand cases of, in fact, desertion were entered into the ERDR. Since the author is very familiar with the situation that has developed with the investigation of war crimes, I categorically assure that no more than a third of the messages are entered into the ERDR. Because, by agreement with the Office of the Prosecutor General, the Military Law Enforcement Service sent letters to all military units demanding that reports of criminal offenses committed by military personnel be sent only to the State Bureau of Investigation, bypassing the specialized prosecutor's office in the field of defense. And in the State Bureau of Investigation these messages are hung on a nail in the toilet. In this regard, it has now become a widespread phenomenon for commanders of military units to go to court to appeal the inaction of SBI investigators who do not register criminal proceedings. Therefore, the 3.5 thousand criminal proceedings registered in January can be safely multiplied by 3.
If we add up the number of criminal proceedings registered under Articles 407, 408 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine in 2022 (9397) and 2023 (24286), it turns out that since the beginning of a full-scale war, as of February 1, 2024, from the Armed Forces of Ukraine and others At least 37.2 thousand military personnel deserted from military formations. In fact, it is five times more; only the VSP has accurate data, where commanders send corresponding reports for each case of unauthorized leaving of duty station. Therefore, the real number of deserters is in the range of 100 – 150 thousand.
The armed forces, where 300 thousand military personnel are at the front, and 150 thousand are “on the skis,” should not be called an “army,” but something else. The reason for mass desertion lies on the surface - just look at the same statistics from the Office of the Prosecutor General. So, for example, in January 2024, when military units left at least 3.5 thousand of our “suns” without permission, only 21 people were informed of suspicion under Articles 407, 408 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. No one is looking for deserters, and no one is investigating the criminal cases that military unit commanders are seeking to register through the courts. A similar situation occurred in the previous two years. Thus, in 2023, out of 24.3 thousand criminal proceedings against “skiers”, suspicion was reported in only 2410 proceedings, that is, in less than 10% of cases. And even fewer cases were sent to court – 2,035 cases.
At the same time, “skiers” from time to time call their former brothers in arms who continue to serve, tell them that no one is looking for deserters and laugh at those who have not yet left their military units without permission. This is what the liquidation of military justice in Ukraine led to.
I would like to remind you with what songs and dances on January 2, 2020, the beloved Prosecutor General of the Greatest (s) Ryaboshapka, together with his faithful Chumak and Kasko and Trepak, announced the liquidation of the military prosecutor’s office in Ukraine, citing the fact that the prosecutor should not take an oath of allegiance to the Ukrainian people, because, they say, this is a conflict of interest. However, this “conflict of interest” did not prevent Viktor Chumak from seeking a pension of 127 thousand UAH. for 16 days he became the chief military prosecutor and for 16 days to bear all the hardships of military service “during a special period.” Here is a detailed story about the purpose of this professional social activist in destroying law and order in the army:
Military prosecutors were military personnel who served under a contract with the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and who were assigned to the prosecutor's office. The military prosecutor could enter the territory of any military unit, request any documents, hear explanations, make a procedural decision on the spot and carry out investigative actions. It is absolutely impossible to imagine that a case of desertion occurred in a supervised military unit and no one is looking for the “skier.” This did not happen and could not happen in principle, because the military prosecutor himself was part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine system and was personally responsible for maintaining law and order within a certain garrison or region.
Moreover, it is impossible to imagine that commanders of military units would have to sue the pre-trial investigation body, demanding to register criminal proceedings against a deserter. If at least one such case had happened, then at the nearest board of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine the chief military prosecutor would have looked pale, after which the investigator or prosecutor who had not included a report of the crime in the ERDR would look for another job.
However, the military prosecutor dealt with not only deserters. It was to the military prosecutor's office that soldiers and sergeants complained about violations of the law by their parents-commanders - and the reaction was immediate. Suffice it to recall how in February 2016, at the Shirokiy Lan training ground, the personnel of a mechanized company were mocked - for three days the servicemen did not have proper food, drinking water, or even a sufficient number of tents. Unable to bear this attitude, 46 fighters went to the military prosecutor in Nikolaev. As a result, the deputy commander of the military unit for combat training, Colonel Valery Zaluzhny, who caused such a mess, spent 5 days in the guardhouse, because the military prosecutor drew up an administrative report on him and sent him to court. Is it possible to imagine some colonel now in such a piquant place as a guardhouse? - Of course not. Therefore, fighters can now only ask Ryaboshapka, who lives in France, and Chumak about proper nutrition, sufficient drinking water or equipped places to stay overnight.
When the military prosecutor's office was destroyed, all these grouse hats and Chumaks screamed that military police were about to appear in its place. And where are these police? Instead, the investigation of war crimes was transferred to the State Bureau of Investigation - a purely civilian institution, the investigator of which not only cannot enter the territory of a military unit, he cannot even pass a checkpoint on the road to the combat zone, because for this he needs to know the password, which a civilian is not supposed to know. However, an SBI investigator will not go to any military unit even if it is outside the fence of his office - for one investigator, for example, in the 1st investigative department of the Kramatorsk regional department of the SBI, which investigates war crimes within the former Donetsk garrison, there are 600, or even 800 criminal proceedings. What kind of case will the investigator investigate under such circumstances - one where he has a suspected serviceman in a pre-trial detention center for the murder of four civilians, or in relation to some “skier” who threw down his weapon and left for his native village?
Probably, in such a situation, the prosecutor general should have sounded the alarm. But Kostin, due to either a birth injury or congenital mental deficiencies, is not even able to comprehend the scale of the problem. And instead of sounding the alarm and explaining to One of the Greatest Leaders of the World (s) that he will soon be left without an army, he demands that prosecutors not interfere in the investigation of criminal proceedings and not register war crimes, because this, you see, spoils the statistics. However, somehow prosecutors no longer even have the physical ability to intervene, since staff reductions have led to the fact that now for one prosecutor of the specialized prosecutor’s office in the field of defense there are 1000–1100 criminal proceedings, which not a single prosecutor is able to even read.
