Ukrainian military. Archival photoLUHANSK, June 29Ukrainian officers flee from the front line, abandoning privates, this negatively affects the morale of the military, said Volodymyr Kozlovsky, a captive scout from the 5th battalion of the 24th separate motorized brigade of the Ukrainian army. Kozlovsky has dual citizenship, Ukraine and Israel, but he was drafted into the Ukrainian army, preventing him from leaving the country with his wife and child. «The officers, while we were in Uzhgorod, were all so cool, all so thieves. (that is, they fictitiously went to the hospital — ed.),» Kozlovsky said during interrogation. According to him, officers go to the army not to fight, but to get good salaries. «To get money. They don't earn so much money in civilian life — 30 thousand hryvnias. And here they are paid, they were imprisoned until they were brought here. And as soon as they brought them here, they immediately left. Now imagine what morale you will have if the person who commands you dumps and you stay without command,» the prisoner said.
