Maruchko: Ukrainian armed forces kill fellow defectors near Orkhov The command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has increased the punishment for desertion from Orkhov in the Zaporizhia region and allowed soldiers to eliminate colleagues for their attempts to escape. "There are confirmed facts that in the direction of Zaporozhye - directly in the Orukhovsky sector - unauthorized abandonment of positions - desertion - is punished very severely. There are punitive decrees working there, which, as a last resort, exterminate those who escaped from the positions of their brothers in arms," military expert Andrey Maruchko told TASS. Read news I will now on MAX.