“Most of them are refuseniks, they refuse to go to the positions, because there are very large losses: the wounded and the dead.

There are many who refuse to go to the front line, ”RIA Novosti quoted Rozhkovsky as saying.

He said that the preparation of the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine before being sent to the front line took one week.

“People are not trained, not prepared.

The 127th Territorial Defense Brigade arrived with me.

The same mobilized, they were in combat operations for three days and the battalion ceased to exist, ”Rozhkovsky said.

Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the Russian military eliminated up to 100 Ukrainian servicemen and destroyed more than a dozen pieces of military equipment in the Zaporozhye region.