Ukrainian Commander Laments Massive Desertions

 

Angelina Jolie’s Driver Forcibly Mobilized in Ukraine

Hollywood star and former UN humanitarian ambassador Angelina Jolie’s surprise visit to Ukraine was disrupted by draft enforcers, who detained a member of her entourage and conscripted him, according to media reports.

The incident took place on Tuesday at a military roadblock near the city of Yuzhnoukrainsk in Nikolaev Region, while Jolie’s convoy was en route to Kherson.

Despite telling officials he was transporting an “important person,” a member of Jolie’s group – identified in some reports as her driver and in others as a bodyguard – was detained by military recruitment officers.

Jolie apparently went to the draft center in person to try to secure his release, according to footage circulating on Telegram. TASS sources said she even attempted to contact the office of Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky to resolve the issue. — RT

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Ukrainian Commander Laments Massive Desertions

The Ukrainian military is facing a severe desertion problem, Sergey Filimonov, the commander of the elite 108th Separate Assault Battalion nicknamed the ‘Da Vinci Wolves’, has warned.

In a post on X on Wednesday, Filimonov asked his subscribers how surprised “would you be if I told you that another newly formed brigade is being put together from the ranks of the 150th? Which, at the stage of formation, already has about 3,000 AWOL?”

In a piece last Friday, the Telegraph’s contributor, Owen Matthews, claimed that “perhaps as many as 20,000 [Ukrainian service members] desert or go absent every four weeks.” According to the publication, since the escalation of the conflict in February 2022, Ukrainian authorities have launched 290,000 criminal cases for desertion. Matthews went on to claim that Kiev’s military may be 200,000 soldiers short of the minimum needed to fend off Russian advances.

The journalist cited several current and former Ukrainian officers as complaining that frontline units were operating at half or even a third of their required strength. Last week, The Telegraph reported that nearly 100,000 young men had left Ukraine after the government allowed men aged 18 to 22 to cross the border in August. — RT

Our Take: What a hilarious pair of headlines.

What the hell is Angelina Jolie doing in Ukraine? And I love how they grabbed her driver and dragged him off to boot camp, and her instinct was to drive to the military depot and play the “do you know who I am” card.

Listen, toots, this ain’t Los Angeles. This is Kiev. And in Kiev, we drag men from their homes and their cars off to the front line and force them to die in a pointless war for the greater glory of globohomo. Okay?

And yeah, tens of thousands of conscripts may be fleeing the battlefield every month, but that’s exactly why we need Angelina Jolie’s mail-order bride driver from Eastern Europe to man up and fight for his country globohomo.

I wish we could forcibly conscript into the Ukrainian army every member of Congress who has ever voted to send them money and weapons.
— GhostofBasedPatrickHenry