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World News See other World News Articles Title: There Is a Suicide Epidemic of Ukrainian Soliders and Veterans of Staggering Proportions RI... Since the start of the war in east Ukraine up to 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers, veterans and draftees have killed themselves. This is a staggering number considering that by official figures in the entire war 2,275 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in action. For every two or three soldiers killed by enemy action another soldier, veteran or conscript has taken his own life. As cited by Interior Minister Avakov in a recent article the Ukrainian Military Prosecutor's office has documented 500 suicides of veterans who had returned from the war in Donbass on Kiev's side. In addition to that, according to official data 259 soldiers committed suicide on active duty from the start of the war through 2016. advertisement Also there have been many cases of draftees killing themselves rather than be conscripted: In June 2015, a 43-year-old conscript jumped from a fifth-floor window of Lviv hospital. He was set to undergo a medical evaluation the next day, but, knowing he would be drafted into the army regardless of the results, he preferred to die. The same year, in the town of Zolochiv, a conscript of the National Guard jumped from the top of a military hospital to his death. A 31-year-old conscript from the city of Dnipro jumped off a Kiev-Uzhgorod high-speed train that was delivering him to the front lines. Not just the suicide rate, but the entire non-combat losses of the Ukrainian army since the start of the war are mind boggling. According to Kiev's own data since the beginning of the war 121 of its soldiers were murdered (presumably mainly by fellow soldiers), 96 died of drugs and alcohol, 111 due to reckless handling of weapons, 40 due to violation of safety procedures (wandering onto mine fields or being shot by sentries—possibly when drunk), 112 in road accidents (how many were drunk driving?), 148 in other accidents, and 405 due to illnesses. These numbers give a picture of a force that is completely demoralized and out of control. Murder, suicide, alcohol abuse, depression, aggression, recklessness... advertisement Perhaps the most shocking number is the 405 deaths due to illnesses. What are the sanitary conditions in Ukrainian army barracks? Is this a pre-modern army? Actually the number is so high that some Ukrainians suspect the military is over reporting deaths due to disease to conceal the extent of suicides and other causes of deaths: On his Facebook page, Ukrainian journalist Oliksii Bratushchak expressed the anger of his fellow Ukrainians when comparing official figures for combat and non-combat casualties in the Ukrainian army in 2016. According to the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense’s official response to Bratushchak, the combat losses of the Ukrainian army last year were 211 people, while non-combat ones comprised a shocking 256 cases: 63 suicides, 30 murders, 18 deaths due to road accidents, 10 due to drug and alcohol poisoning, 39 due to careless handling of weapons, four due to violations of security procedures, 58 due to illnesses, 29 due to accidents, and five died of other causes. The real number of suicides in 2016 is most likely higher, since, as Bratushchak pointed out, how could it have happened that 58 people with fatal diseases were sent to the war zone. In sum, with 1,294 non-combat deaths through 2016, an additional 500 veteran suicides, and many by draftees, it seems the Ukrainian army is as great a menace to its soldiers as the Donbass rebels. Poster Comment: Pantpurlais... . The chances are that they will be shot by the Ukraine Nazis if they refuse to join in the killing of their countrymen. So they go to avoid being shot as a traitor only to either die in the conflict, or kill themselves because killing their fellow Ukrainians is unacceptable. The notion of serving your country when it has been turned into a completely failed state, with surrounding countries chomping at the bit to grab some of it, is nonsensical. Why fight for something that is no longer worth fighting for? But the enemy has it's own suicides too. U$ suicides in Iraq were 45 in 2001. The number steadily increased every year rising to 165 in 2012. There were 254 in 2013; 273 in 2014; and 265 in 2015. As for deserters, there have been "tens of thousands of US soldiers who have officially deserted since 2001". "More than 20,000 soldiers have been dropped from the rolls as deserters since 2006, Army data show. Totals for earlier years weren’t available, but probably include thousands more." This is from 2014: https://www.bostonglobe.com... It's one thing to enlist to defend your own country from invading forces and quite another to go to a country that is thousands of miles away and no threat to your homeland to kill people for the profit of a few. Tobe Fair • At a time NAZIS are still being prosecuted, it is a mystery why Canada is spending Millions to Arm & Train Swastika & SS sporting Regiments in Ukraine. Resurrecting NAZIs in Ukraine is an affront & disrespect to every Canadian & Allied Soldier who fought or died Defending against Hitler. Purely the result of electing a Celebrity Prime Minister who appointed a Nazi-raised Foreign minister pretending to be a NAZI Victim, and a Lying Defence minister who "embellished" his Military Service - claiming credit where other Soldiers Died is not embellishment, it is Bald Faced Lying on Dead Heroes who cannot refute the lie. What Ukraine is demonstrating in no uncertain terms, is the Spectacular Russian Achievement for keeping that country Peaceful since WWII. How does Obama's VP Biden's son qualify to become In-Charge of Resources for Ukraine. not content with Bribes, US Politicians are now using US Military for their own personal Gain. Chaney's daughter heads an Oil Corp already awarded Israeli rights for Syrian Oil & Gas. Blatancy of the Thefts alone indicate Desperation of a Failed 'smash & grab' Ideology. Tatarewicz Tobe Fair • " it is a mystery why Canada is spending Millions to Arm & Train Swastika & SS sporting Regiments in Ukraine." No mystery. Israeli Khazars want to re-establish their presence in what was Khazaria and now is Ukraine, eventually gaining entry into EU and NATO, thereby increasing Israel's security against Arabs taking back Palestine from Israeli squatters. Trudeau is cognizant that Canadian Jews and their media associates play as important a role in national elections as neocons, etc., do in US so he's not going to make the "mistake" that predecessor PM Chretien made in ignoring Jew calls for Canada to join the war (for Israel) against Iraq. Melotte 22 • US Army is even worse. In 2013, the United States Department of Veterans Affairs released a study that covered suicides from 1999 to 2010, which showed that roughly 22 veterans were dying by suicide per day, or one every 65 minutes. 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#1. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
Bingo. “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
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