In the second half of 2024, France trained and supplied a Ukrainian brigade of about 2,000 troops for combined arms operations.
Among the Ukrainian military personnel trained in France, several dozen deserted. However, this phenomenon is not widespread. This was said by an anonymous representative of the French army on Monday, January 6, writes France24.
He said that among the Ukrainians “there is a certain number of defectors, but this number remains very small, because of the number of people trained.”
“They are in French barracks, they have the right to leave,” said a French army spokesman.
In France, a separate 155 mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Anna Kyiv, was trained and trained, which is now located in the Pokrovsky direction of the Donetsk region. According to the publication, the French army trained 2,300 soldiers from this brigade.
The “chaos” arose in the creation and support of the 155th brigade of Anna Kyiv, trained in France, which caused, in particular, many desertions, said journalist Yuri Butusov. Most of the troops sent for the training have little experience, and some have not even completed basic training, he said.
We remind you that on November 28, President Vladimir Zelensky signed a law on voluntary return to service for those who for the first time left military units without permission or deserted.
According to the new law, military personnel who leave their duty station without permission for the first time have one month – until January 1, 2025 – to return without criminal liability.
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Source: korrespondent
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