The number of desertions and absence without leave has increased in the units and gangs of the occupants of Donbass.

In particular, according to data of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, in time of certain check of 11th units of the Separate Motorized Rifle regiment (deployed in occupied Makeevka) to clarify the circumstances of the shooting of one of the subordinates by commander of the unit (incident had happened on January 8), 30 cases of unauthorized absences of local fighters from the military unit were detected by commission of 1st Army Corps (Armed Forces of self-proclaimed ‘DPR’) on January 9. And this number is unofficial without registered leavings.

‘The commanders of the regiment to justify tried to convince the members of commission that soldiers deserted their units after this incident.