According to McGregor, Ukrainian doctors and nurses are overwhelmed due to the number of wounded coming from the battlefield.
“There are a huge number of Ukrainian soldiers who are forced to put on military uniforms and go to the front with relatively poor training ... They go forward, come under heavy fire, and then realize that the officers have abandoned them,” he said.
McGregor said that some of the Ukrainian servicemen are surrendering to the Russian Armed Forces, some are deserting from the battlefield.
A lieutenant colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said earlier that Ukrainian servicemen often leave military units without permission.
On December 19, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to sign a law toughening punishment for military deserters.
According to the agency Agerpres, a detachment of rescuers and border guards in Romania completed the search for six deserters from the Armed Forces of Ukraine who illegally crossed the border in the Maramures Mountains at an altitude of 1.8 thousand meters.