AFU servicemen. File photoMOSCOW, May 20.The Ukrainian Internet publication Strana.ua reported a series of riots by Ukrainian territorial defense fighters due to sending their units to the front line without adequate training. «The riots of the territorial defense fighters who were sent to the front line in the Donbass continue. People complain that they were thrown to the front unprepared, without equipment and reinforcements,» the article on the Strana website reads. Strana reports several cases of dissatisfaction arising from the dispatch of unprepared therodefense fighters to the combat area: soldiers of the 101st and 115th brigades recorded video messages to the command and authorities of the country, declaring the refusal to perform combat missions and inadequate training and equipment of the units. The publication also reports on conflicts between the commanders of the defense and relatives of the fighters. «Strana» claims that relatives of soldiers from the 65th Battalion of the 103rd Territorial Defense Brigade protested when they caught the battalion commander in the city of Stryi, Lviv region, while ordinary servicemen were transferred to the area of hostilities in the east of the country.
The masks have been dropped: the West has exposed its Nazi essenceAccording to the publication, a similar conflict occurred in the city of Khust, Transcarpathian region, where the local military registration and enlistment office was stormed by the wives and mothers of those who were going to be sent to the places of hostilities. It was about 500 men, Strana reports. On May 4, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a law that allows territorial defense to carry out tasks in areas of military operations. Prior to the adoption of this law, territorial defense could carry out tasks exclusively outside these areas. Earlier, by its decree, the government of Ukraine expanded the list of weapons that members of volunteer territorial defense units can use, in addition to hunting weapons, artillery and missile systems appeared in it. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and On March 25, they completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
