General staff report: commanders of Russian division refuse to fight

OLHA HLUSHCHENKO - SUNDAY, 3 APRIL 2022, 06:47

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has reported that commanders from the Russian army as well as two battalion tactical groups are refusing to fight.

Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook.

Quote: "According to the information available, the morale and psychological state of enemy personnel and the level of motivation remains at an extremely low level.

Commanders of different levels of the 3rd Motorised Rifle Division of the 20th Combined-Arms Army of the Western Military District are refusing to take part in combat operations.

Furthermore, military personnel are writing resignation letters en masse.

Personnel from two battalion tactical groups of the 4th Military Base of the 58th Combined-Arms Army of the Southern Military District have refused to take part in combat operations in Ukraine.

The plan is for them to return to their permanent deployment points."

Details: In order to make up for the loss of personnel, the Russian leadership is campaigning to encourage civilians to join the ranks of the armed forces.

These actions are being carried out both within the Russian Federation and in the temporarily occupied territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and the autonomous republic of Crimea.

Systematic violations of the requirements of International Humanitarian Law on the conduct of war are still taking place.

The Russian invaders are continuing to place weapons and military hardware in close proximity to residential infrastructure in populated areas, to conduct filtration activities in the temporarily occupied territories, to perpetrate acts of violence against local residents, and to engage in looting and robbery.

In the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, the protectors and defenders of Ukraine have beaten back six Russian attacks in the past 24 hours, and destroyed four tanks, six armoured vehicles and seven vehicles belonging to the invading forces.

During the previous day, a group of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine hit eight air targets: two aircraft, one helicopter, one UAV and four cruise missiles. Air Force aircraft also continued to strike places where Russian troops are amassed, convoys of military hardware and logistics centres.