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Ukrainian troops have grown tired of the barrier detachments deployed in their rear by the Kiev regime to the point where they have begun cooperating with the Russian military to get rid of them.
Barrier detachment, which are also known as anti-retreat forces, are military units deployed in the rear or on the front line to prevent the flight of troops from the battlefield, and to return soldiers who fled or those who lag behind their units.
In Ukraine, these detachments are mostly made up of nationalists from the National Guard of Ukraine (NGU) and are reported to be engaged in all sorts of violations.
The violations became so bad as the Russian military began to advance deeper in the special military operation zone over the past year to the point where reports of barrier detachment opening fire at Ukrainian troops attempting to retreat have become a regular occurrence.
A video posted to social networks from early August showed one incident during which a Ukrainian barrier detachment opened fire at soldiers evacuating a trench stormed by Russian troops. The detachment ended up getting hit by a Russian FPV suicide drone.
With no ability to withdraw in the face of mounting pressure, Ukrainian troops have begun to report the location of the barrier detachments to the Russian military to get rid of them.
On August 8, it was reported that Russian airstrikes destroyed two such detachments near the settlements of Orestopol and Alekseevka of the Dnipropetrovsk region in the southern Donetsk direction after receiving information from the 31st Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Force of Ukraine (AFU), according to Russian media. Both detachments belonged to the NGU’s 17th Poltava Brigade.
Igor Kimakovsky, adviser to the head of the Donetsk People’s Republic, confirmed the incident to RIA Novosti on August 21.
Another incident was reported by Russian media on August 14, in which the AFU’s 60th Mechanized Brigade reported the coordinates of the command post responsible for the operations of barrier detachments deployed near the settlement of Drobyshevo in the Donetsk direction to the Russian military. Intense airstrikes hit the center soon after.
Later reports revealed that the Kiev regime doubled down on this policy, going as far as deploying additional patrols from the police and intelligence behind barrier detachment to make sure AFU troops stay locked up along the front line.
“The Ukrainian General Staff has sent out an order to the security agencies to strengthen their work to combat the unauthorized abandonment of units by mobilized citizens of Ukraine. To this end, the number of military patrols in frontline zones has been increased, and cooperation with representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Security Service of Ukraine has been established,” TASS quoted military expert Andrei Marochko as saying on August 15.
Later on August 20, Marochko told the news agency that Ukrainian troops fleeing the settlement of Sobolevka in the Kharkov direction, which was captured by the Russian military, were stopped by barrier detachments and returned to the southern part of the settlement.
“Russian troops bypassed the enemy’s fortified area in small maneuverable groups and entered the settlement of Sobolevka in the Kharkov region. Some Ukrainian militants attempted to leave their positions without permission, though they were stopped by the so-called barrier detachment and returned to the southern outskirts of the settlement,” he said.
The Kiev regime appears to have fractured the Ukrainian military in its quest to maintain complete control over the situation on the front line.
The AFU, or at least some of its units, are now clearly in an intra-conflict with the NGU’s barrier detachments. The recent incidents shows a growing trend where Ukrainian troops are favoring the option of cooperating with the Russian military in order to get a chance to withdraw and save their lives.
This phenomenon has become ubiquitous and has led to the AFU’s losses of 1.7 million people being caused not so much by Russian firepower, but by their own barrier detachment.
The consequences from this are not limited to the situation on the front line. The violations being committed by the barrier detachments are actively contributing to the desertion of Ukrainian troops, and encouraging others to dodge drafting or even leave the country altogether.
In the end, Kiev does not have the needed manpower to hold onto the current frontline for long. Attempts to force people to fight will only backfire.
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when i graduate from shekelstein janitorial academy i trained to scrub mulatto toilets and accept mandatory taliban sodomy
good boi.
that is how your leaders want you to be.
slava !!! and all that
sic semper tyrannis
when the “beginning” says how do ya do to the “end”… if this isn’t a poster child for total dismembering defeat i don’t know what else you would call it!
death of a nation, that is what i would call it.
the country needs to be broken up along ethnic and political lines as there is no way the different groups can ever live together again after all of this
like the celtic anglos, no? what’s for you?
repeated ad infinitum since the first empire same old scripts same simple minded sycophantic sentiment
many ukrainians of the millions maybe killed by banderites themselves…i bet those on the backlines were banderites, and those on frontline were forced conscripts… how did you deal with people like this? they have absolutely no honor at all!
banderites are already in the front line, there’s no one else to go on the main directions. denazification is garanteed.
grow up. its business business class is just the respectability falsely attributed to greed as if a virtue.
“ukrainian troops have grown tired of the barrier detachments”
only the most insane, dysfunctional, idiotic group of clowns would even concieve of “barrier detachments”. let russian armed forces exterminate them all…
this is exactly what police forces are, “barrier detachments” to secure that people have no freedom, no right to feed from nature, only right to feed the parasites, and right to get killed. the whole “nature preservation” are a gigantic scam to separate people from nature, and let the 1000 lapp cannibals fly elk by helicopter, and burn down tipis for not race clean, greedy enough women.
i bet the russians were laughing at this idiocy.
not laugh, dispare.
it takes a special kind of sickness to murder your own brothers in arms, and no one will ever laugh at such sickness
don’t boder, soon you will be in valala.
so much crap spewed out here, they should issue a warning. danger will robbingson space cadets on the loose regurgitating left overs from vomatose violence of centuries.
when first man is killed, second man picks up rifle, and shoots. smh zelensky belongs in prison.
that was once upon the time in the east, as you won’t zelensky hanged, for example.
this is old footage from at least a year ago. we even watched it right here on southfront last year (or maybe even the year before, not sure all i know is old footage).
no,
the old footage showed machine gunning of walking guys.
these men were running and shot at with rifles.
the sickest past footage was of unarmed soldiers walking across a field with a white flag towards the russians and the ukrainians gunning them down in the back.
murder caught on camera, which was made worse by the western media not reporting it.
it’s not western media. its global media. abd they’re all in it together and it’s all privately owned and or totally legally controlled by the rule of law and compulsory censorship from the moral authority who is also post master general of the globe and has total undemocratic autocratic control over every single bit of information that’s allowed to be transmitted by everything except carrier pigeons
rupert murdoch lord rothermere, the cia all ruled by the pmg
why only two lines of barrier detachments? why not more? coordinates of all them to russian artillery and drones et caetera, good old common ukranians.
people do wake up but as usual too slowly. everytime it’s the same repeats propagandas, compliance obedience entrapments into blood baths and they never learn. just comply and it’s their own frustrations causing aggression that they use as the instrument or fuel (that they build in using obedience) to drive their war wagon.
cooperation always removes barriers .
essa ucrânia é um lixo… eles obrigam os cidadãos a irem para a guerra contra sua vontade, colocam os coitados na frente de batalha para servir de escudo e quando os coitados tentam recuar são mortos pelos próprios soldados ucranianos. se esses neonazistas são tão corajosos, por que eles não vão na frente? espero que os cidadãos ucranianos que forem obrigados a ir para a guerra, continuem informando aos russos sobre a localização desses lixos neonazistas.
chocante essas imagens. meu deus…tenho nojo dessa ucrânia.
they want to get rid of the true ukraine men to get their land and women. it’s an ethnic cleaning like we know from israel. yes you’re damn right: the jews of ukraine are on vacation in turkey while the goi (not jews) must be killed in any case.
i love to see banderites kilkling banderites
ukrainian soldiers should have shot their own officers a long time ago.
the uaf are broken. that’s huge. the retreating soldiers were shooting at the barrier troops. it shows me how deep the divide is and it’s widening.