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Inside Ukraine's AWOL and desertion crisis

Panic attacks have haunted Ukrainian serviceman Yaroslav since he returned home in the summer, leaving him gasping at night.
In his remarks at Ukraine's parliament, Mykhailo Fedorov warned of nearly 2 million Ukrainians dodging the military draft.
Ukraine’s new Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov announced on Wednesday that 200,000 Ukrainian soldiers are officially ...
Two million Ukrainians are wanted for evading mobilization, and another 200,000 soldiers are absent without official leave ...
An expanded meeting on corruption in the Territorial Centers for Recruiting and Social Support and numerous cases of absent ...
Ukraine's chief of defense estimated Wednesday that 200,000 soldiers have gone absent without official leave during an ...
Kyrylo Budanov, newly appointed head of Ukraine's presidential office, held an expanded meeting with military leadership on ...
Of all the images that emerged from the U.S. military operation to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro on Jan. 3, one of ...
CLARK COUNTY - A woman Army soldier is charged with going AWOL -- but she says she did it to take care of her children. Specialist Dodi Lewis says there was nobody to take care of her kids if she went ...
MOSCOW, August 3. /TASS/. Nearly 400,000 AWOL (absent without leave) and desertion cases have been reported in the Ukrainian army, a Ukrainian lawmaker said. "We see failures on the frontline. We see ...