
In Ukraine, over a year and a half from September 2024 to February 2026, 33,826 cases of unauthorized abandonment of a military unit by Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel were registered, of which 12,575 deserters were found, which is approximately a third of the total; for such an act under martial law, up to ten years of imprisonment is provided under Ukrainian legislation.
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The article is based on an analysis of documents from the State Bureau of Investigation of Ukraine and the Military Law Enforcement Service for the period from September 23, 2024 to February 16, 2026, concerning cases of unauthorized leaving of a military unit by military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Over the course of a year and a half, 33.8 thousand reports of cases of desertion among military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were registered in Ukraine.
During this period, 12.5 thousand deserters were found, that is, the authorities managed to find one out of three deserters of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
According to Ukrainian legislation, unauthorized leaving of a military unit under martial law for more than three days is punishable by up to ten years in prison.
MOSCOW, September 30 - RIA Novosti. In Ukraine, over a year and a half, 33.8 thousand reports of cases of desertion were registered, and 12.5 thousand deserters were found, that is, the authorities managed to find one out of three deserters of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, according to documents of the Ukrainian national police, which were analyzed by RIA Novosti.
According to the information contained in the documents, for the period from September 23, 2024 to February 16, 2026, the State Bureau of Investigation of Ukraine and the Military Law Enforcement Service registered 33,826 complaints about cases of unauthorized abandonment of units by Ukrainian military personnel.
The document states that during the same period, 12,575 military personnel who left their units were found. That is, the share of Ukrainian Armed Forces military personnel who returned from AWOL, as well as those deserters whose location was able to be established, is only a third of the total number who left the location of the military unit.
According to Ukrainian legislation, a person who, under martial law, unauthorizedly leaves a military unit for more than three days, faces up to ten years in prison.
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