As reported by the Main Directorate of Internal Affairs, as of 14 August, 150 of military men who have committed grave and especially grave criminal crimes have been arrested, which is less than 4% of all military personnel prosecuted this year. That is, in the first seven months of this year, approximately 3780 “defenders of Batkivschina” were brought to criminal responsibility, not counting those brought to administrative and disciplinary responsibility.
4 January 2017, the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Stepan Poltorak, in an interview with 5 Channel, said: "The number of the Ground Forces Armed Forces of Ukraine has tripled - to 159 thousand military."
“In general, the number of contract servicemen in the Armed Forces of Ukraine is more than 120 thousand people,” said Defense Ministry spokesman Colonel Maxim Prauta at a briefing on August 8.
In March, 2015, the Verkhovna Rada increased the staffing of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to 204 thousand. We will proceed from this figure, although not all the regular cells are filled with living people. But even in this situation, for every 53 defender there is one sitting criminal, not counting those who were released under an amnesty.
In the ATO zone in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, 74 military personnel are taken into custody. A trial is under way for 116 military personnel. Another 34 are under investigation. The arrest has been applied to servicemen who have committed premeditated murders, including for mercenary motives. For committing crimes against the life and health of a person in custody is almost 60% (88) of the total number of military personnel. They face imprisonment ranging from 7 to 15 years. For example, the Belovodsk regional court of the Luhansk region is considering a criminal case of a military man who killed two military men from an AKS-74 assault rifle and injured five.
There are cases of causing bodily harm, including severe, from hooligan motives, in a manner dangerous to the lives of many people. Thus, the investigative department of the Military Prosecutor's Office of the ATO forces is investigating the case of a soldier of a military unit in the village of Peski in the Donetsk region using two RGD-2017 grenades in July, which he “out of hooliganism” threw in the direction of his “twin cities”. As a result, 5 people were hospitalized with injuries of varying severity. 7 military accused of stealing cars, 11 sit for robbery and robbery. The military prosecutor's office of the Odessa garrison the other day sent an indictment to the court over the sale of AKS-10 machine guns to a 12 soldier. What they have is what they steal.
Recall that they arrest and detain criminals only in exceptional cases. The fact is that last year the Verkhovna Rada adopted a law on preventive amnesty for criminals who "shed blood" in the ATO. Now they can commit their crimes with almost no punishment. And commit.
Two years conditional and a fine in 3 thousand UAH. Such a decision was made by the court in relation to the soldier Nikolai Vasyanovich, who, under the influence of alcohol, raped a minor girl in an unnatural way. The crime occurred in the village of Mlachivka, Poles'kyi district, Kiev region, where the accused served in a military unit. The court took into account that Vasyanovich defended batkivschyna in the ATO zone, where not only rape, but also the killing of the civilian population are justified by law.
Valentin Licholit, accused of creating an armed gang, looting, looting and kidnapping, the court released on bail of the deputy. Following Liholit, his subordinate Igor Radchenko, arrested earlier on the same articles, also came out. A resident of Kolomak received four years probation for a robbery attack on the post office. The sergeant of the 54 th mehbrigade together with accomplices who abducted and tortured a Donbas resident to death also received a suspended sentence. By the way, according to the materials of the case, many soldiers were witnesses of the abduction, who were at that moment in the disposition of the unit.
This series of criminal offenses committed by ATO participants can be continued. Probably, it is only necessary to be surprised that still 150 "defenders of batkivschyna" are still "languishing" in prisons. How long will the new Ukrainian justice "mock" them? Yes, and places in prisons need to be freed more quickly, because crimes in Ukraine committed by servicemen multiply like mushrooms after rain.
On the night of August 8, the military shot and killed an 25-year-old woman in the village of Troitskoe, Lugansk region. “They were invited to the birthday of his wife by her 29-year-old husband,” writes the Ukrainian edition of Left Bank. Absolutely according to Derzhavin: “Where the table was food - there is a coffin” ... In the evening of August 17, the “defender” threw a RGD-5 grenade - no, not in the enemy’s trench, but into the window of a residential building on Spartak Street in Rovno, where seven people were. There is no doubt that the “humane” Ukrainian court will not dare to touch the attorney.
What kind of army is the attitude of Ukrainians towards it? The defenders supply the VSU with self-explosive Hammer mortars, and the warriors themselves are fed with canned dog food. 8 August at a press conference, MP Vitaliy Kupriy said about canned food that nothing has been done to verify the legality of the purchase of such products. “This indicates that this crime is now being covered,” said Vitaly Kupriy.
“The US military is learning a lot in the Ukrainian army,” said Colonel Paul Schmitt, defense attache at the US embassy in Ukraine. His words are listed on the website of the Ministry of Defense of the unfortunate country. I would like to clarify what the Americans still learn - to rape, kill and rob? In this case, the American army is as “strong” as the Ukrainian one.