A source from the Cheka-OGPU explained the situation with fighters from South Ossetia, some of whom unexpectedly returned home from Ukraine:
“Firstly, the soldiers did not escape, but were taken home by the former president of South Ossetia and his man nicknamed “Bala.”
Secondly, they were taken because the soldiers, when sent to Ukraine, were registered as volunteers, and not as servicemen of the 58th Army. Although in fact these soldiers serve under contract.
In addition, these servicemen were sent to Ukraine “lightly”: without body armor, without the required amount of weapons and equipment, because the command of the 58th Army in South Ossetia was intensively eating up funds to support the military personnel together with the current government in South Ossetia.
In fact, the guys were sent without everything so that the local generals and personally the president of South Ossetia would receive their medals.
Due to these circumstances, these servicemen were taken from the front; they did not escape.
It’s not the soldiers’ fault that their leadership is corrupt.”
VChK-OGPU
Former South Ossetian President Eduard Kokoity said that some of the soldiers sent to Ukraine fled home.
“We are all concerned about the situation around our soldiers who returned home to Ossetia from the combat zone. No one has the right to condemn these…
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