Source: RIA Novosti
On October 27, the Ukrainian military revealed details on its irrecoverable non-battle casualties since the start of the conflict in the eastern region of Donbass in 2014.
According to Ukraine’s Chief Military Procurator, the total number of non-battle casualties is 2,700, including 891 because of diseases, 318 – road accidents, 177 – other accidents, 175 – poisonings by alcohol and drugs, 172 – mishandling of weapons, 101 – violations of the safety rules, 228 – killings, 615 – suicides.
A third of the suicides took place in the area where the Ukrainian military is carrying out a military operation against forces of the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Lugansk People’s Republic. The rest suicides happened after troops involved in the oepration had been withdrawn from the combat area.
