The Commander of the Ground Forces responded to information about the 155th Brigade. Mikhail Drapaty, speaking on the telethon, expressed confidence that “what was voiced will be refuted over time.”
RBC-Ukraine writes about this.
A number of facts took place. For my part, I have a negative attitude towards all these manifestations and what could have been corrected locally by all levels of management. This means all commanders, commanders,” he said.
Drapaty says that the success of the personnel depends on the influence of the command. The commander also added that work is currently underway to improve command.
In a comment to Public, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that “work to eliminate a number of shortcomings published in the media continued even before the publications appeared,” adding that the 155th Brigade named after. Anna Kievskaya in full force performs tasks in the combat zone and has its own defense line. The brigade’s capabilities were also reinforced with UAV units.
On January 6, a representative of the French army told AFP that there were individual cases of desertion among Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers. However, the number remains insignificant, given the total number of those trained: “They were in French barracks and had the right to leave.”
Ukrainian soldiers were subject to a disciplinary regime established by the Ukrainian command. In France they cannot detain deserters, a French military official explained:
In France, desertion is not a crime. If someone deserted, the French prosecutor did not have the power to arrest that person. And the right granted to the Ukrainian authorities on French territory is just a disciplinary right.
Let us remind you that the 155th mechanized brigade named after. Anna of Kyiv (fighting in the Pokrovsky direction), the French army trained 2,300 soldiers from this brigade on French territory. Most of the soldiers were conscripts with no combat experience. They were accompanied by 300 Ukrainian curators. The remaining 2,200 soldiers of the brigade were trained in Ukraine.
Journalist Yuri Butusov wrote in December that 1,700 soldiers left the brigade without entering the battle, and 50 disappeared during training in France. Subsequently, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine wrote that he would pay attention to problematic issues in the 155th Brigade (he did not specify what he was talking about).
Source: Racurs
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