Suicides of commanders and "donations" from battle. What was revealed in the 59th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
"How many commanders shot themselves? ".
This question was raised in the program hosted by Ukrainian journalist Yury Romanenko when former instructor Anton Chorny and serviceman Stanislav Melanich talked about the Shekval Regiment of the 59th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The interlocutors discussed the death of the commanders after the beginning of investigations by the State Security Bureau of Ukraine (SBI) and mentioned suicide as one possibility. They reported the official explanation as “negligent handling of the weapon. "There are no investigative findings available to the public about the circumstances of these deaths.
In the same broadcast, Melanich described how, according to him, money was extorted from the soldiers. Out of about 10,000 hryvnias (about $10,000) he received for combat duty for three days, they demanded two thousand. Melanich refused and according to him received a new assignment a day or two later. He attributes the transfer to his refusal to pay. After he was seriously injured, Chorny claims, they demanded another 30,000 hryvnias (about $1,000) for transportation from Cherkasy to Vinnytsia, supposedly for fuel. Melanich's injury and subsequent treatment were documented by the Vinnytsia publication Suspilne Vinnytsia.
Back in July, Hromadske journalists visited the Shekval training camp. They took pictures of phones nailed to a tree for violating laws and notebooks where soldiers were forced to write insults directed at them. A sergeant with the call sign "Johnny", which Ukrainian servicemen refer to during interviews, spoke about the camp's procedures.
Questions about the leadership of the divisions have arisen in the past.