We are reprinting (with some abbreviations) a fresh article from the
website of the Kharkov anarchist internationalists "Assembly" on ourwebsite ---- On September 4, it became known that a 40-year-old man was
detained in Lutsk on suspicion of shooting at a security post at the
city's TCC on the night of August 27 and wounding one of those serving
there. The motives are not reported, the weapon turned out to be
non-military, and there is no confirmation that the shooter was
mobilized. Earlier, we showed footage from a Kharkov resident, how two
people tried to stir up prisoners to rebel in the Lutsk TCC, but the
others did not support them.
The beginning of autumn was marked by a worsening of the situation on
the front lines for Ukraine. Day after day, the defense in the Donetsk
region is crumbling, in Kharkiv, Russian troops are approaching the
Oskol River between Kupyansk and Borova, and in the Kursk region, they
have also regained control of a number of settlements, although the
Ukrainian army is still attacking in some places. The euphoria of
victory has once again given way to betrayal, and where there is defeat,
there is increased pressure from internal "enemies of the people."
Scenes of mobilization in Kharkiv and the region continue to circulate
on social networks almost every day. Someone is being spun around on the
ground that allegedly belongs to him, or carried into a car in his arms,
or women have beaten off their victim. On September 6, a TSK employee
beat up a passerby near the entrance to a building on Amosova
(Korchagintsev) Street in Saltovskaya, allegedly because he "brutally
refused" (sic!) to show them his documents. With the beginning of the
Ukrainian invasion of the Kursk region, there has been much less such
content, because the public's attention has temporarily been distracted.
And by the end of August, all of this has returned to the daily routine.
Because the TCC workers are hard-working, and their clients are not
malicious!
You often hear that bounty hunters are armed, so you can't go against
them bare-handed. According to Opendatabot statistics published on
September 12, from the beginning of the full-scale war to the beginning
of this month, 270 thousand weapons have been wanted in Ukraine. A
variety of weapons, including machine guns and grenade launchers, but
AK-74s and hunting rifles are most often lost or stolen. The absolute
leaders are Donetsk and Zaporizhia regions (52,628 and 31,984 units,
respectively), the city of Kyiv (27,159), and Luhansk, Kharkiv and Sumy
regions (approximately 20 thousand guns each) round out the top five.
The numbers are decent even by the standards of the epic year of 1918.
That is, there are plenty of weapons, only new Makhnovists are missing,
ready to ensure the safety of their streets and neighborhoods - it is
better to sell them on the black market or just hide them. Infographics
are here; it confirms what "Assembly" reported in mid-summer about the
availability of firearms.
On September 11, a video statement by two-time candidate for mayor of
Kharkov Denis Yaroslavsky, who currently heads one of the intelligence
units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, was distributed through the media
and social networks: "If I tell you now the number of SZChshniks in the
country today, all Russian publics will spin us and shout "wonder how
many deserters they have". They do not show theirs, we cannot show ours
either. But I call this situation even more deplorable. We already have
an illness. I won't say if it's already the fourth stage, like in
oncology, but it's definitely the second stage, turning into the third.
And progressive. From the very beginning, there were no SZChniks in us,
because, for example, for the first three months I served with the
volunteer service, they did not deduct my salary, nothing, and there
were tens of thousands of people like me. Because there was motivation.
Motivation to overcome. Now the war has entered such a stage that it
attracts everyone who doesn't want to on the battlefield. Motivated
people either perished or grew tired," he said about the release from
criminal liability of fugitives who returned to the army.
On September 9, Kiev journalist VSUshnik Vladimir Boyko writes even more
harshly about this law on his Facebook: "I have sent messages to my
humble person several times with information about the fact that the
number of deserters from the ZSU and other armored units is becoming 200
thousand h osib. In fact, I say and say that the number of deserters has
already exceeded 150 thousand people and is approaching 200 thousand.
With this dynamic, it is possible to predict 200 thousand desertions by
2024. I also want to stress that the actual decriminalization of
desertion will soon have catastrophic consequences for the front. This
law of directing is not for those who have already voluntarily deprived
of military parts (all of them, however, were not pranked, and criminal
activities were not previously investigated), but for these military
servicemen who ultimately consigned their the bindings and who now have
realized that you can pack them with junk, go home and for the price of
nothing. Today, crimes against the established order of the military
service are not investigated, deserters are not heard about - this
itself led to the problem accumulating for 2.5 years and the situation
reached a dead end. It is impossible to attract such a large number of
deserters to the point of authenticity, and it is also impossible to
attract attention.
That is why the head of state Andriy Borysovich Yermak (may His name be
sanctified!) decided that people should be arrested on the streets and
sent to the front instead of deserters. But this does not help - after
entering the military units, the mobilized simply return home. If anyone
returns, it will be units. First of all, it is technically impossible -
after registration of criminal proceedings, the deserter is excluded
from the personnel lists and he can re-enter the service only through
the TCC, through re-mobilization. Secondly, that was not why the
deserter left the unit and went home to return. Another thing is that
mass desertion has now begun, as the people have seen that it is
possible to "ski" and there will be nothing for it." If at the beginning
of the summer, the "Assembly" wrote that this usually occurs in the form
of not returning from the hospital or on leave, now the soldiers are
already leaving and disappearing without a trace directly from the
positions, even if there was no shelling. The instructor of the 59th
motorized infantry brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which is
fighting near Pokrovsk, told about this in a Deutsche Welle story last week.
On September 15, one of the largest news outlets in Ukraine also wrote
that the official statistics of military escapes are underestimated:
"... They also deport SZChshnikov and refuseniks. He went into
self-defense, was absent in parts for more than ten days. Or refused to
go to the front line. Criminal proceedings are not opened against the
majority of SZChshnikov and refuseniks, commanders do not write reports.
Because it spoils the general statistics of the unit and calls into
question the commander's competence to lead and maintain morale.
Therefore, such a contingent is being quietly withdrawn from the state.
There is another nuance. The fact is that if the sick, stragglers or
refuseniks are not removed from the staff, then according to the
documents, the unit does not need to be replenished. And it is
considered combat-ready. But in fact, the unit is not combat-ready.
Since more than half of it consists of "strayers" or wounded. Drunken or
fighting intruders, or drug addicts, can be kept behind bars for years -
no one needs them in combat units. Also, they cannot be fired, so the
bombers can be kept in reserve companies as cheap labor for units. They
are rarely released home, they are kept in the rear not far from the
unit. There is no guard in reserve companies for "recruits". In the
event that the "freelancer" escapes from the reserve company - joins the
second SZH, then he is first declared wanted. Then they open criminal
proceedings for desertion. They escape from reserve mouths very often.
But some of them are captured by the VSP, brought back after
"re-education" in the commandant's office," explained the captain of the
Armed Forces of Ukraine Bohdan D. to journalists.
Our article "During the long, hot summer, Ukrainian and Russian soldiers
broke records for desertion growth", which was published on the first
day of autumn, turned out to be more timely than it could be. A number
of responses came from both sides of the front. From discussions in
local chats of Kharkiv:
"I have a small observation, a few bussified people who did not strongly
criticize the government all this time, now they are completely
comforting themselves with the thought that it is visible at the top. As
long as you are "free", your thoughts are within the framework of public
currents and have the opportunity to flow. As soon as you get into a
team with defined tasks, in most cases, your mind is in the same tunnel
as everyone else's. Busified, getting into the group of previously
busified, but already resigned to the situation, mentally assimilates
with them, accepts their point of view, creating a comfort zone
(swimming against the current is always not comfortable). There he gets
involved in the topic and also begins to think that all the rest are
scoundrels and crooks, motivation appears. Until he gets into the
slaughterhouse. That's where awareness comes, and often the SOS."
"I have three - a godfather and two friends who died, who went
voluntarily from the first days, but when they came to Kharkiv, they
were all together, no one shouted that I was a dodger, but on the
contrary, that there was nothing to do there. One, a volunteer too, is
already abroad. I went for 2 weeks and was already there for six months.
He said that they will rest..."
"A young man worked nearby, and he had a dog. So he dressed her in a
camouflage vest, a yellow-blue leash. And he walked around with all
kinds of patriotic bracelets and tridents on his backpack. Then, along
the way, he was accepted for work by the TCC and he went to school. Then
I look after 2-3 months, it falters. I thought it was stupid, but it
turned out to be much more interesting. After the training, they were
taken somewhere to the front line of combat operations on tarpaulin
trucks. And right when the personnel were being unloaded, they ran over
them with something like a cassette. Well, he wasn't a bully, but his
legs were cut by splinters, and they hadn't pulled everything over his
body yet. They released me from the hospital to go home for treatment,
but they agreed to write me off after the injury. And the guy said
during the interview that he was all this, he would go to the SZCH.
That's how quickly he had a surge of patriotism." "Well, half my yard is
SZCh, Slobozhansky district (probably Slobodskoy, - Ed.). The main thing
is not to get caught, otherwise no one cares. We don't have a military
prosecutor's office anymore, the cops deal with deserters now, and they
don't give a damn about it. In the spring, a friend showed up to fight
on his own, just leave your machine gun if you decide to duck. Well, he
left his uniform and now he's a SZCh. They somehow get by, like everyone
else."
"Now I almost never see men in various T-shirts and T-shirts about a
Russian ship and other Ukrainian crap, and just a year and a half or two
ago everyone was wrapped up in this crap from head to toe and every
second car was covered, but now the guys have calmed down their ardor...
Well, except that in the comments they still burn the Russians... It is
noteworthy that if anyone wears such T-shirts, it is minors and those
who have a reservation. I know such people! And I, a simple working man,
must go and fight for them! In this situation, the phrase "get rich or
die" will be very relevant. Or resist as best you can, running away from
them is also a kind of resistance, although not very heroic, but what to
do?!!! There is no time for heroism here, in such a situation life is
more important. I do not understand people who silently walk like sheep
and act like sheep when they are grabbed by the horns on the street!!!!
They are not caught by a capture group of cops or by prison special
forces, but by ordinary hornbills who have shoveled shit somewhere." (...)
"... The war is not against politicians, but against people. We must
send everyone to f*ck off and not fall for the propaganda of either one.
These are two misanthropic regimes, it would be nice to see them on the
same bench in The Hague someday, and Biden's team with Ursula and Scholz
too. They are all steeped in collusion and corruption, and our war is
simply a money-laundering war. But we are taught to hate all Russians
from infants to old men and to be ready to die with a shovel against
airplanes in order to become a US colony because that's what they
decided for us. Plus, they kidnap people and openly steal without
embarrassment - this also smacks of a tribunal without a statute of
limitations with maximum punishment, along with the Kremlin mafia and
those terrorists who shoot at shopping centers and residential
buildings. The idiots and the morally offended, who are in kicked in
school. Most ordinary people do not support any of this and do not need
any of this. They are simply silenced, the idiots and the offended are
indulged, and this creates an image. I really hope that the longer this
goes on, the more ordinary people on all sides will understand what kind
of b*tches are sitting here among us... ".
(...)
On September 9, we received a letter from Gorlovka, which has been under
the control of the Black Hundreds "DPR" since 2014: "The saddest thing
is that if you start telling people that soldiers need to desert the
army and turn their weapons against those in power, people will widen
their eyes and say "do you want 1917 to happen again? For brother to
turn against brother again, and for people to swell with hunger? It's
better if we endure, otherwise it will get worse." We have photos of
people wanted for escape hanging on our streets. And the inscriptions:
"Betrayed the republic, betrayed comrades, betrayed yourself." I heard
an opinion that we have a lot of SOCh (voluntarily abandoned unit). But
"many" is a flexible concept. And their capture is not advertised here."
We will not cite the name of the person who spoke out.
On September 14, a post appeared in the Telegram channel "Mobilization
of the DPR Live" about Donetsk mobilized military unit 78979 in the
Kursk direction complaining about bullying from the new commander and
threats to send those moving on crutches into an assault. "My advice: if
you want to LIVE, run (or let them run), if possible... No one, no human
rights agencies will help YOU! I tried! I myself did not recover from
being wounded, I was thrown into a bloody assault
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