Scary statistic: named non-combat losses of the Ukrainian military

Most of the deaths are alcohol-related.

In June 2017 in the area of ATO composed of all military units non-combat losses amounted to 18 killed. Another 24 were wounded. While combat losses in June amounted to 27 dead and 1 missing.

It is reported by the editor in chief of the Censor.NO Yuri Butusov.

Compared to may the number of non-combat losses have doubled. From among 18 who died through non-combat causes 10 deaths is a death in the result of intoxication or caused by a drunken soldier.

“On June 19, a group of soldiers led by platoon commander of one of the mechanized brigades took alcohol and went swimming in the lake near the Kurakhovskaya TPP. The next day found that one of them at the location did not return. On June 22 the body of the drowned found on the Bank”, – quotes the journalist is one of the examples of non-combat losses.

On June 20 a group of soldiers at wzwodem the reference point of the same infantry brigade has noted with alcohol the first the salary of one of their comrades. During a drunken conversation one of the soldiers accidentally blew up a grenade. As a result, two soldiers were killed and two seriously injured.

June 26, two soldiers another mechanized brigade were drinking together on Rotom reference point, quarreled, one of them shot and killed a comrade.

Also on June 26 infantry brigade shot by a drunken soldier was killed soldier female – head power plant.

Butusov notes that according to the report, a senior member of staff of the ATO headquarters, 76% of non-combat losses in the parts that are more than 5 months spent in the area of the ATO.

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