AFU servicemen. Archival photoLUGANSK, April 26 Ukrainian soldier Bohdan Smaga, who laid down his arms, spoke about the disregard of the command: during the only exercises in two years, he and his colleagues were thrown into the forest, from where he had to get out using google maps, along the way eating prey, including marmots. «They didn't treat us very well. Once people (instructors, — ed.) came to us from America or Canada and saw that the equipment they had given us was disappearing somewhere. They ( commanders) stole half of it,» Smaga told reporters. He added that the auditors promised to reach the leadership of Ukraine with complaints. Over the years of his service, Smaga was at the exercises only once — in 2020. — he said. At the exercises, the Ukrainian commanders were drunk, and then completely disappeared somewhere, leaving their wards in the forests. «We had no fuel, no food, no water. We ate hares, marmots, rabbits — everything that gets handy,» he recalls. I had to get out on foot and using Google maps — so the military came to their unit. The attitude was repeated during the hostilities — Smaga laid down his arms, and his mother was told that he had died. «Mom, co everything is fine with me,» a Ukrainian military spoke through journalists. And he liked it
