"9 out of 10": People's Deputy stated that the Armed Forces had problems with casino, the military answered him

According to People's Deputy Alexei Goncharenko, the military, instead of investing money in housing, loses them in a casino. The commander of the department of the 24th OSH of the Armed Forces of Ukraine "Aidar" Stanislav Bunyatov denied that such problems suffer only "rear" military from boredom.

The People's Deputy from the European Solidarity faction Alexei Goncharenko stated that there are serious problems with gembling and betting in the Ukrainian army - allegedly 9 out of 10 fighters suffer from gambling. The People's Deputy wrote about it in his Telegram channel. "Of the 10 soldiers on the forefront, they have problems with casinos or betting. The money is lost. Then they take loans. And so in a circle. This is a problem that right now destroys the moral state of the military.

But in addition, it creates a problem and then," Goncharenko writes. People's Deputy noted that the money lost to gambling is leading to debts and difficulties in the future: "A person stayed a year or two on the front line. I received a conditional from 60 to 150 thousand hryvnias there . . . instead of buying housing, investing or simply To put the money, ”everything lost.

” The People's Deputy proposed by the People's Deputy includes a ban on gambling for servicemen and activation of the Eosel Program to provide housing. The People's Deputy suggested stimulating financial discipline by giving the possibility of investing in housing: "It will be clear, clear and not corruption system . . . Then returned to civilian life and there is an apartment - it can be handed over and receiving some money every month and already plus.

" The commander of the department of the 24th OSH of the Armed Forces "Aidar" Stanislav Bunyatov with the call sign "Osman" stated that the data operating Goncharenko is false. "I have men serve in the battalion, not clowns," the fighter said. "I do not know where this idiot is such statistics, so you kill . . . I don't know. " In this case, Bunyatov does not deny the fact of the problem. According to him, those who lose their salary in casino are usually military people who serve in the rear.

He is convinced that they do it from boredom. At the same time, among combat units, such cases are a rarity: "And only isolated cases were with combat boys, which we quickly exercised the brain, by forcibly transferring the RF to the card of the wife or mother. " The commander of the UAV department in the 59th OMPB of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Pavel Petrychenko is given a different opinion.

In his opinion, servicemen who have been far from their families for the third year without being able to rest properly and are psychologically vulnerable in constant stress. "There are not uncommon cases where playing military personnel spend all their money on games and take micro -loans, thus bringing themselves and their families to the" debt pit ", or they take drones and thermal imagers to the pawnshops," the military said.

Petrichenko believes that the gambling business "enjoys such vulnerability in deliberately directing his advertising on military personnel. " At the same time, according to him, advertising uses the symbolism of the Armed Forces, and the online casino and "bleach" their activities by sacrifices to the Armed Forces. The military sent a petition where he set out the following requirements: according to him, his petition was rejected due to inconsistencies.

Gambling covers various forms of gambling, such as casinos, lotteries, gaming machines, as well as the most popular form that contains all of the above games-online casino, where participants put money on a random result for the purpose of winning. According to the National Bank of Ukraine, in 2023 the turnover of the gambling business amounted to UAH 12-15 billion a month, which means that Ukrainians spent about UAH 400 million in online casino daily. Dependence on gambling is called ludomania.

In Ukraine, there is a register of persons with restricted gambling establishments and participation in gambling, known as the Ludoman Register. According to the Gambling Regulation Commission and Lottery (Kilil) at the beginning of 2024, 3871 persons were included in the list in three years of existence. According to the first deputy head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance, Tax and Customs Policy, Yaroslav Zheleznyak, the gambling business for 2023 paid more than 10 billion UAH of taxes.

At the same time, the total turnover of the gambling business increased almost 15 times a year and reached UAH 207 billion. We will remind, the employee of the 1st tank brigade with the call sign "Physok" said that during the battle on one of the areas of the front, the fighters lost their brothers. They moved away from the position and his body remained there. After a few days, they returned to pick it up.