Owen Matthews in the Spectator this week on Ukrainian deserters

"As Senator John Kerry told a Senate Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on the Vietnam war in April 1971: ‘Nobody wants to be the last man to die for a mistake.’ Prosecutors have opened a staggering 235,000 criminal cases for desertion from the Ukrainian army since the beginning of the war – including 176,000 absent without leave since November 2024. That means that more soldiers are on the run from the Ukrainian army than currently serve in the armies of Britain, France and Germany combined."