In Kherson region about 20 Russian military deserted from the battlefield - General Staff

In the area of the village of Krynki in the Kherson region deserted about 20 military of the Russian Federation. This is stated in the evening bulletin of the AFU General Staff on Facebook.

According to the General Staff, the military personnel from the 144 separate motorised rifle brigade of the Russian Armed Forces escaped.

It is noted that they arbitrarily left their combat positions.

About 20 servicemen of the Russian occupation troops from the 144th separate motorised rifle brigade of the Russian Armed Forces have deserted near the Krynki settlement in the Kherson region and left their combat positions," the report said.

We would like to point out that cases of desertion of soldiers have become more frequent in the Russian army. For example, in temporarily occupied Arapovka in the Luhansk region, about 90 Russian servicemen deserted and left their combat positions unauthorisedly. In Svatovo, Luhansk region, 40 invaders escaped. In Mariupol and Novoazovsk in Donetsk region, 25 Russian occupiers deserted. In the Zaporozhye region about 50 invaders refused to fight and put their weapons out of service.

As Business Insider writes with reference to Lieutenant General Jonathan Braga, commander of the US Special Forces, Ukrainian information operations have forced thousands of Russian troops involved in a full-scale invasion of Ukraine to desert. In his assessment, Ukraine's information pressure on the invaders in the media and social media has been an important tool in persuading thousands of Russians to leave the service. The general believes that there are about 17,000 such deserters.