타임지가 전하는 우크라 병력 부족과 심각한 비리 실태

 

 타임지에 따르면 우크라이나군 평균 연령이 43세라는데 

그럼 40대 병사가 제일 많단 얘기죠.

 

 또, 우크라이나 징병담당자가 일반적 절차 무시하고 

기차와 버스에서 사람들을 끌고가는 게 소셜미디어에

퍼져서 뇌물 주고 허위진단서 발급해서라도 안 잡혀가려는

사람들이 늘었고 젤렌스키가 지난 8월 병무청장 모두를

해고했답니다.

 

 그런데, 이게 역효과가 나서 잠재적 비리자로 낙인 

찍히게 될 병무청장, 징병담당자 하려는 사람들을

찾기 어렵게 됐다네요.

 

 한편, 우크라이나 대통령실 경제 수석의 형제가

발전소 소유주인데 러시아 점령지에 있는 데라

우크라이나 전력선과 연결 끊어졌는데도 국가

예산 받고 있었답니다.

 

 그래서, 우크라이나 경찰이 수사했지만 젤렌스키는

경제 수석을 정직시키지 않고 지난 9월 방미 대표단

으로 데려갔다네요.

 

 

 다음은 우크라이나 매체 키이우인디펜던트 기삽니다.

 

 우크라이나 93 기계화부대 총원이 작년 6월에

110명이었는데 지난달 까지 전사, 중상으로

전투불능된 인원 제외하고 네 명만 남았답니다.

 

 41살인 28 기계화부대 병사는 친구들이 얼마나 더

죽어야 되냐며 집에 가고 싶다 했구요.

 

 

 

 ‘Nobody Believes in Our Victory Like I Do.’ Inside Volodymyr Zelensky’s Struggle to Keep Ukraine in the Fight

 

 2023.10.30

 

 One of Zelensky’s close aides tells me that even if the U.S. and its allies 

come through with all the weapons they have pledged, 

 “we don’t have the men to use them.”

 

 Ukraine’s armed forces so badly that draft offices have been forced to

call up ever older personnel, raising the average age of a soldier in 

Ukraine to around 43 years. 

 

 As conscription efforts have intensified around the country, stories are 

spreading on social media of draft officers pulling men off trains and 

buses and sending them to the front. 

 

 Those with means sometimes bribe their way out of service, often by 

paying for a medical exemption. 

 

 Such episodes of corruption within the recruitment system became so 

widespread by the end of the summer that on Aug. 11 Zelensky fired 

the heads of the draft offices in every region of the country.

 

 But the move backfired, according to the senior military officer, as 

recruitment nearly ground to a halt without leadership. 

 The fired officials also proved difficult to replace, in part because the 

reputation of the draft offices had been tainted.

 

 In August, a Ukrainian news outlet known for investigating graft, 

Bihus.info, published a damning report about Zelensky’s top adviser 

on economic and energy policy, Rostyslav Shurma. 

 

 The report revealed that Shurma, a former executive in the energy industry, 

has a brother who co-owns two solar-energy companies with power plants 

in southern Ukraine. Even after the Russians occupied that part of the country, 

cutting it off from the Ukrainian power grid, the companies continued to 

receive state payments for producing electricity.

 

 The anticorruption police, an independent agency known in Ukraine as NABU, 

responded to the publication by opening an embezzlement probe into Shurma 

and his brother. But Zelensky did not suspend his adviser. 

 

 Instead, in late September, Shurma joined the President’s delegation to Washington, 

where I saw him glad-handing senior lawmakers and officials from the Biden Administration.

 

 https://time.com/6329188/ukraine-volodymyr-zelensky-interview/

 

 

 As Bakhmut counteroffensive lags, soldiers burnt out from horrors of war

 

 2023.10.26

 

 Among the units that endured the brunt of Russia’s relentless assault on 

Bakhmut was the large 93rd Separate Mechanized Brigade, well known 

among soldiers as a unit often deployed to the worst spots of the war to 

“fill in the gaps.”

 

 “The Russians were like going to work at 8 a.m. and finishing at 6 p.m. 

It was literary hell there (in Bakhmut),” said Oleksandr Maroshnyk, 

a 31-year-old infantryman from Odesa who serves with the 93rd.

 

 Of the original 110 people that his company had when it was formed in 

June 2022, only four remain in action ? the rest have been killed or wounded, 

mainly in Bakhmut, Maroshnyk said.

 

 “I’m not scared of death. But how many guys were killed,” 28th Separate 

Mechanized Brigade infantryman Anatoly, 41, from Vinnytsia Oblast, said, 

struggling to find the words to describe his shock.

 

 “When will this f*cking war end? How many more friends killed do I need?”

 

 “I just want to go home, I’m so tired,” Anatoly blurted out wiping away tears, 

as shelling was heard in the background.

 

 https://kyivindependent.com/as-bakhmut-counteroffensive-lags-soldiers-burnt-out-from-horrors-of-war/