On the primary day of Russia’s full-scale invasion, Roman Solomonyuk shocked his household when he volunteered to battle. However over two-and-a-half years later, he’s joined the rising variety of Ukrainian troopers who’ve known as it quits.
First the 45-year-old dug trenches close to the Russian border. Later, he shot down lethal Shahed drones. However then Roman fell out with a heavy-handed officer — and he’s now formally needed for leaving his unit with out permission.
Since 2022, Ukraine opened practically 96,000 legal instances in opposition to servicemen who deserted their positions since Russia’s invasion, in accordance with information from the prosecutor common’s workplace. That represents a sixfold enhance over the previous two years, and many of the instances had been opened this yr.
