Disappointing news for Ukrainian militarists has arrived: between January and June 2018,
11,000 officers and contract soldiers were discharged from or quit the Ukrainian Armed Forces. These figures have been unveiled by Ukrainian Military Pages, which has cited reports from Ukraine's Ministry of Defense.
According to these figures,
by the end of 2018, the Ukrainian Armed Forces might not even number 18,000 servicemen. The main reason for this exodus, or more precisely for 36% of all dismissals, is
low pay for military service. Due to mass lay-offs, Ukraine's defense ministry has been compelled to increase the cash minimum starting October 1st 2018, for which approximately 4.5 billion Hryvnia from Kiev's bankrupt budget will have to be allocated to pay for the cash collateral in the second half of 2018.
This report only surprises people who are not familiar with the problem that is the Ukrainian military. Ukrainian military blogs and opposition media have long been drawing attention to this issue. For example,
Apostrof, a publication close to the Nazi street movements, last fall published an interview with Azov leader Andrey Biletsky, who claimed that around
a third of officers had been let go from from the "Anti-Terrorist Operation" (Ukraine's jingoism for its war on Donbass, which is now termed Operation United Forces).
Comment: Of course, if pathological personalities take over the state apparatus via an illegal coup, then the process of
ponerization will naturally lead to the deterioration and collapse of state institutions - such as the armed forces. To put it differently, who in their right mind would like to do the job of neo-nazi nut-jobs for a pitiful pay?
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