“According to preliminary data, more than thirty people left the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Nikolaevka and October.
It is worth noting that it was in these positions that ordinary Ukrainian fighters were abandoned by their commanders to their fate, ”the statement says.
The People's Militia of the DPR added that Ukrainian servicemen continue to come, laying down their arms.
“The largest number of those who refused to participate in hostilities was recorded in the 53rd separate mechanized brigade and the 36th separate marine brigade, which occupied the lines in the Mariupol direction,” the police said.
Earlier it became known that Ukrainian servicemen of the 57th Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine voluntarily defected to the side of the Lugansk People's Republic.