"Dead Souls" in the Armed Forces: why the army's number increases and the soldiers are not enough

At the same time, we have 30 million people, and maybe even a little. I can't say exactly the figure," the President of Ukraine said. Already in July, the head of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Roman Gorbach reported that during the two summer months compared to the period from the end of 2022 and until the spring of 2024, the number of people who voluntarily joined the army increased 3. 5 times.

In turn, according to the Minister of Defense Rustem Umerov, the mobilization rates increased three times over the year. He stressed that as of September 2024, almost 3. 5 million Ukrainians received an electronic military accounting document in the Reserve+, while 230,000 soldiers used electronic services in the Army+. Ukraine has a nearly million army, but there are not enough people at the front, most servicemen hold the rear positions. But not everything is so simple here.

There are those who have never even appeared in service among the typovists. It is about men who buy a place in part, according to documents - military, but are at home. People's Deputy Marian Bezugla noted in a conversation with focus that solving this problem should begin with the desire of the management to fight and conduct an audit. However, she stressed that there is no such systematic desire, and some of the generality are participants of such schemes.

According to Bezsuga, the problem of "artificial replenishment" of the Armed Forces, unfortunately, is observed everywhere, but the air forces should be noted separately. "Digging and creating an electronic military ticket can help," the People's Deputy said. Also, to combat such schemes, it is necessary to eliminate "olders" from the leadership of the army, she is convinced.

The military expert, the Colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleg Zhdanov stressed that the military units should be audited. And stories with "dead souls" are an agreement with the commander. Only he can cover the fighter to be at home, but he was counting in part.

"We have the forces of personnel management within the General Staff and the relevant personnel departments in operational commands, which should control the availability of personnel in accordance with the staffing schedule," - explained the focus of Zhdanov. He noted that this is actually evasion of service when the person gives his salary card to the commander who withdraws money from him. As a result, no one knows where he is - either on a business trip or on some tasks.

According to military expert Dmitry Snegirev, such schemes are corruption, so this is a question to anti -corruption bodies. He noted that these are not isolated cases where the CCC allows such schemes, which indicates a systemic nature. "The main question to the controlling bodies that should be responsible for combating such manifestations," said Focus Snegirev. While lawyer Rostislav Kravets believes that the presence of this problem depends on the particular commander.

"We see how many criminal proceedings are already there, when people who are home or build housing, even receive combat for being involved in hostilities. It all depends exclusively on the commander," said Focus Kravets. He is convinced that in order to control such situations, it is necessary to revive military justice. It is necessary for military prosecutors and investigators to carry out inspections, travel in parts and check the availability of personnel, payment on a permanent basis.

According to the lawyer, you can quickly expose a person who is conditionally in the Armed Forces but is at home. So there are precincts who know who in their district is a military manner, where he works, what he does. "When a person is in the Armed Forces, but he is at home, it is usually very quickly possible to calculate and hold everything to justice," he explained that he added that there is no physical ability to deal with the problem due to lack of military justice. .

Maryana Bezugla stressed that she fights up to a third of all Ukrainian military at the forefront, while others are typical. In her opinion, corruption and lack of reform of the system are the reason that this ratio does not change. Instead, it is possible to overcome corruption and reform the army in the near future, at least a number of elementary overripe steps should be made, the deputy summed up.

According to Zhdanov, well "zero" is about 100 thousand soldiers, and in the front area-200-300 thousand. However, the story when the typovists are more, it is a world problem, he said. The expert said that during the Cold War, the United States found that six to seven people who will provide it should be kept on one warring fighter. After that, they began to optimize the operating staff structure of the army, and the minimum number of provisions was three to one.

However, even such a ratio is difficult to keep. Snegirev noted that the commander -in -chief of the Armed Forces Alexander Sirsky previously declared the audit of defense forces, replenishment of combat units at the expense of fighters in the rear. However, the number of defense forces is currently about one million people, and there is a smaller part on the fighting line. Therefore, there are questions about the very nature of the acquisition and the announcement of rotation measures, he added.

We will remind, on November 26 the media learned that during a full -scale invasion of the Armed Forces, 41 persons were released through the VLK, it was about military personnel of the higher command staff. Whereas only one officer returned to the service. On November 25, the People's Deputy Irina Konstankevich reported three problems with the mobilization process - a shortage of fighters in the Armed Forces, more than a million booked people and violations of the delay from the call.