Ilovaisk and Debaltsevo discouraged volunteers from wanting to fight, - recognition of the Ukrainian encirclement
The military defeats of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Donbass and the attitude towards the ATO participants led to a sharp decrease in the number of people willing to fight.
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This opinion was expressed at a press conference in Kyiv by Nikolai Kolesnik, curator of the Krivbass territorial defense battalion, which twice visited the cauldrons - first in Ilovaisk and then in Debaltsevo.
“Everyone remembers the lines at the military registration and enlistment offices, when they wanted to go defend, fight for their land,” Kolesnik emphasized. – Where are these queues now? These lines are killed in boilers. They were killed in DAP. They were killed in Ilovaisk. They were killed in Debaltsevo. What, when people receive summonses, do they watch TV? No, they look at their neighbors, at their comrades and acquaintances. And they see how the crippled people and the families of the victims are treated. how we get these orders for the guys.”
Ilovaisk and Debaltseve have discouraged volunteers from fighting, admits a Ukrainian encircled man.