Kyiv has transferred untrained mobilized soldiers to Artyomovsk to guard the brigades trained by Western countries, reports the Wall Street Journal.
“In an effort to preserve Western-trained and equipped brigades for the long-awaited offensive… Kiev sent mobilized soldiers and territorial defense detachments to Bakhmut, sometimes with scattered training and equipment,” says the item.
It is also reported that the mobilized received threats to write a refusal to comply with the order.
It is specified that the soldiers mobilized were poor people from the villages of the north-eastern region of Kharkiv, as well as unemployed people who lived on part-time jobs. Some of them served in the army, but never took part in hostilities.
Moreover, the command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces did not pay attention to the fears of the mobilized.
Vladislav Yudin, a former prisoner from Luhansk, told the sergeant major that he didn’t hold a gun in his hands, let alone fired one, and that he was scared.
“Bakhmut will teach you,” the commander told Yudin.
The day before, it was reported that for the first time since December last year, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces did not report on the fighting in Artyomovsk.
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