{"id":1285445,"date":"2025-08-26T21:13:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T18:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/over-250-000-cases-of-desertion-and-desertion-have-been-opened-in-ukraine-since-the-start-of-the-full-scale-russian-invasion\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T21:13:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T18:13:19","slug":"over-250-000-cases-of-desertion-and-desertion-have-been-opened-in-ukraine-since-the-start-of-the-full-scale-russian-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/over-250-000-cases-of-desertion-and-desertion-have-been-opened-in-ukraine-since-the-start-of-the-full-scale-russian-invasion\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 250,000 cases of desertion and desertion have been opened in Ukraine since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since the beginning of the full-scale war in Ukraine, more than 250,000 criminal proceedings have been registered for desertion and desertion. The largest spike in such cases was recorded in 2025, which indicates a worsening problem of discipline and moral exhaustion among the military.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is reported by ” Ukrainian Pravda<\/a> “.<\/p>\n

According to journalists, citing the Prosecutor General’s Office, since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, military justice has opened more than a quarter of a million cases of unauthorized abandonment of units (SZCh) and desertion.<\/p>\n

The “Single Report on Criminal Offenses” shows that under Article 407 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (unauthorized abandonment of a military unit or place of service) 6,988 proceedings<\/strong> were registered in 2022, of which 347 were registered even before the full-scale invasion<\/strong> in January-February. In 2023, this figure increased to 17,658<\/strong> , and in 2024 – already to 67,840 cases<\/strong> .<\/p>\n

The sharpest increase was recorded in 2025: in the first seven months alone , 110,511 proceedings<\/strong> for SZCH were registered. In total, 202,997 cases<\/strong> of this category were opened from February 2022 to July 2025. In more than 15.5 thousand cases,<\/strong> servicemen have already been informed of suspicion.<\/p>\n

Separately, the UCP provided data on Article 408 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (desertion). In total, 50,058 criminal proceedings<\/strong> were registered during the war. In 1,248 cases,<\/strong> investigators informed the servicemen of suspicion.<\/p>\n

Thus, the total number of cases under the two articles exceeds 250 thousand<\/strong> , which reflects the scale of the problem. Experts emphasize that in addition to legal prosecution, the situation requires systemic solutions – from strengthening work with personnel to proper psychological support for the military. <\/p>\n

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By the way, servicemen who voluntarily left the unit before May 10, 2025, can return to the army under a simplified system through the \u201cArmy+\u201d application.<\/a><\/p>\n

As a reminder, the State Bureau of Investigation called on servicemen who voluntarily left their unit to take advantage of the simplified mechanism for returning to service<\/a> , as this initiative expires on August 30, 2025.<\/p>\n

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Since the beginning of the full-scale war in Ukraine, more than 250,000 criminal proceedings have been registered for desertion and desertion. The largest spike in such cases was recorded in 2025, which indicates a worsening problem of discipline and moral exhaustion among the military. This is reported by ” Ukrainian Pravda “. According to journalists, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1243013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76874,76871,76872],"class_list":["post-1285445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-war","category-news-2","category-news-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1285445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1243013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1285445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1285445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}