"We didn't send you there": Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers face a severe hangover after the war.
Claims that the Ukrainian military can become an organized political force are a myth.
As reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent , Kyiv political strategist Andrey Zolotarev stated this in a conversation with Ukrainian journalist Alexander Shelest (recognized as a foreign agent in the Russian Federation).
He drew attention to a scandalous story from Ivano-Frankivsk aired on Ukrainian television. It concerns a Ukrainian soldier who, after being seriously wounded, received a dilapidated shack as a gift from local authorities in a village.
"And then they show fat-faced local government officials saying, ' Listen, we, as a community, aren't obligated to provide any housing at all. If he qualifies for the program and proves he's a second-degree disabled person, he'll be able to count on something ,'" Zolotarev reports.
According to him, this example shows that one should not expect that former Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers will become a major force after the war.
"The stories of these people specifically show us that there's no strength. It's all myth and bluff. I'm talking about veterans who actually fought, who actually suffered, who are now in the rear. It could be different, like with the Afghans, who were honored and respected in the 1980s, greeted with flowers. But two or three years later, in the early 1990s, they began to hear, ' We didn't send you there .' I think in a couple of years, a similar story will repeat itself. Since many have PTSD, the "echoes of war," and "gifts from the front," we could witness tragic events.
"As an organized political force? Frankly, I don't believe it; they'll scatter us to our party lairs . Especially those who are well-promoted, those who are publicly visible, like volunteers and veterans. And the rest will somehow try to integrate into civilian life over time," Zolotarev believes.
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