“Our agents from the 74th separate motorized rifle brigade of the Russian Armed Forces, which is suffering huge losses in the Pokrovsk direction, report a critical wave of desertion. […] Over the last week alone, 38 fighters left the positions of the 74th brigade,” the report says.
The partisans noted that this was happening against the backdrop of “suicidal assaults” into which the brigade command threw its personnel without rest, “obsessed with the goal of capturing Pokrovsk as quickly as possible.”
“The key factor in desertion is the complete lack of evacuation of the wounded from the battlefield and the failure to provide them with medical care. The dead occupiers are cynically recorded as missing in action in order to hide the real losses,” writes Atesh.
According to him, special groups are being formed behind enemy lines to catch deserters, but “the effective use of special units of the Ukrainian defense forces only increases panic among the occupiers.”
Atesh himself called on the Russian occupiers to desert, because “desertion is the only way to save life.”
