Lack of motivation and basic coordination are the main reasons why servicemen leave units without permission, that is, they end up in the category of Abandonment (unauthorized abandonment of units). Military medic Gleb Bityukov told this in an interview with Radio Liberty.
According to him, in the first months of the Great War, people went to the army deliberately - there were queues at the military registration and enlistment offices. But the first wave of motivated mobilizers has long since dried up. Now people are going to the front who have neither proper motivation nor training. They are often not even explained basic things - who their commander is, where the positions are, where to move and what specifically to do.
"They are simply taken, thrown into positions - and that's it. A person does not understand where they have ended up. There are two planets between the training ground and the front," the medic said.
Another problem Bityukov calls a failure in moral and psychological support. According to the medic, the position of deputy commander of the MPZ is often filled formally, and almost no one works with the soldiers. And commanders in the field are often absent or physically unavailable: "In some units, people have not even seen their company commander.".
Such conditions, the military man believes, demoralize even those who were motivated. And the problem, he says, is widespread.
At the same time, the doctor notes that the situation has been partially improved by the abolition of criminal liability for military personnel who voluntarily left their units but want to return. Now that this can be done without the risk of persecution, some of the fighters are returning.
