By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-02 16:00:26 | Updated at 2025-01-05 02:48:48
2 days ago
Ukrainian soldiers trained by French army go AWOL before shot fired
The Telegraph ^ | 1/2/25 | Joe Barnes
Posted on 01/02/2025 7:40:05 AM PST by JonPreston
About 1,700 soldiers from a Ukrainian unit equipped by the West and trained in France went AWOL before a shot was even fired.
At least 50 members of the new 155th mechanised brigade, one of the few to operate the Leopard 2 battle tank, disappeared while elements of the unit were being drilled in France.
The mass exodus came before the brigade was deployed to Pokrovsk, the key logistics hub anchoring Ukraine’s defence against Russian advances in the eastern Donetsk region.
Entering the battle in recent days, it suffered heavy losses, reportedly including some of its tanks and armoured vehicles.
It prompted the Ukrainian State Bureau of Investigations to investigate the seemingly shambolic formation of the 155th.
The brigade, also known as Anne of Kyiv, was meant to have more than 5,800 troops and be equipped with some of the best equipment, including Leopard tanks and French Caesar 155mm howitzers.
Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, and Emmanuel Macron, his French counterpart, announced the $900 billion (£747 billion) project to much fanfare at an event to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landing in June last year.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: retreat; ukraine
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1 posted on 01/02/2025 7:40:05 AM PST by JonPreston
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I thought this was The Bee!
2 posted on 01/02/2025 7:41:49 AM PST by JudyinCanada
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3 posted on 01/02/2025 7:43:29 AM PST by JParris
To: JonPreston
This is from some time back...yes?? I seem to recall...they took the weapons and ran....
4 posted on 01/02/2025 7:43:49 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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5 posted on 01/02/2025 7:43:58 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
To: JonPreston
French rifles for sale, slightly used, dropped twice
6 posted on 01/02/2025 7:45:20 AM PST by BigFreakinToad (All she is, is cackles in the wind.)
To: JonPreston
Let the French train all the allied troops and the war will end quickly.
7 posted on 01/02/2025 7:45:28 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Black guy upon receiving a MAGA hat: "MURICA!")
To: Mariner
100%
I wish them luck and I agree with them completely.
8 posted on 01/02/2025 7:45:46 AM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
To: JonPreston
That’s exactly what I’d expect from soldiers trained by the French.
9 posted on 01/02/2025 7:46:26 AM PST by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911/June 14, 1944)
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10 posted on 01/02/2025 7:48:39 AM PST by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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11 posted on 01/02/2025 7:49:57 AM PST by Bratch
To: JParris
Once again, the Euros can’t get the colonials to die for some designated country/target.
12 posted on 01/02/2025 7:50:06 AM PST by glorgau
To: JonPreston
“trained in France...”
I think I found the problem
13 posted on 01/02/2025 7:50:35 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
To: JonPreston
Cheese-eating surrender monkskis..
14 posted on 01/02/2025 7:52:57 AM PST by wny
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15 posted on 01/02/2025 7:53:32 AM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
To: JonPreston
Perhaps that particular Uk unit lacked enough Nazis to be properly motivated.
16 posted on 01/02/2025 7:53:42 AM PST by bobbo666
To: JParris
"50 is not that bad."
The number of deserters was 1,700 which is a huge number. The Ukraine is dead and has evolved into a concentration camp grinding up Ukrainians for dollars.
To: JonPreston
“billion”
Missed it by nearly a thousand-fold, Chief.
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19 posted on 01/02/2025 7:56:01 AM PST by OldHarbor
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20 posted on 01/02/2025 7:57:26 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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