New Delhi: Panic is spreading in the Ukrainian army. The Russian army is advancing. Even at the risk of life, efforts to stop it fail. As a result, one after another the soldiers are leaving the desert. Most of those leaving the desert are those who have been called up from the fields and trained in the use of nominal weapons. Is pushed into the battlefield. Even fewer who are willing to go to war willingly. (People who have not joined the army but are willing to go to war) Even their families are telling them ‘no’ to join the army.
One such soldier, Alexander, suddenly deserted the army from the front line. He said he had seen his comrades’ wings ruffled by six months of Russian bombing.
In the initial days of this war, he was sent to the front in the Lusank area of the north-east. But he found that the officer commanding that front was also hesitating a little before killing his soldiers.
Then Alexander himself thought of a plan to escape. He said to some of his companions, ‘You also think of a plan to escape.’
When contacted, Alexander told reporters, ‘We had to live. We had no experience of war. We are ordinary farmers working in the fields. We have been trained with nominal weapons and pushed to the desert front.
This move by Oleksandr is naturally worrying for Ukrainian military officials. On one hand, the Ukrainian army is losing manpower due to Russian bombing, while on the other hand, ‘defection’ is spreading like an epidemic in its own army. Russia’s manpower is very large. His arsenal is inexhaustible.
Observers say Western powers outwitted Zelensky. Has been made a scapegoat. Zelensky, who originally rose from comedian to presidency, had no idea that waging war against Russia would lead to disaster. Western powers including America have made Ukraine a ‘scapegoat’. Soldiers are running away from the army. Some of whom return. Instead of being punished, he is forgiven. (Otherwise ‘desertion’ is punishable by 12 years’ imprisonment.)
