The fifth battalion of the territorial defence " Prykarpattya " by the decision of the chief of the General staff removed from the zone, the press service of the Ivano-Frankivsk regional administration.
" in response to your request we inform you that according to the General staff of the military power of Ukraine of 28. 08. 2014, according to the decision of the chief of the General staff - Commander-in-chief of the military might of Ukraine 5 territorial defence battalion withdrawn to the place of the resumption of combat readiness ", - said in a published letter to the Deputy Secretary of the NSDC of Alexander Litvinenko on the name of the head of the Ivano-Frankivsk regional state administration Andrey Trotsenko.
in late summer, the Ukrainian media said that the battalion " Prykarpattya " in full on military equipment and weapons. Later the servicemen were held dialogues, in which they agreed to surrender heavy weapons, essentially refusing to part with small arms.
a few days before this Trotsenko addressed the authorities with a petition to withdraw the battalion zone ATO to restore combat abilities.
However, the regional Commissioner of Ivano-Frankivsk military Commissariat Ihor Pavlyuk said that the action of the soldiers of the battalion was not desertion." It was a forced change battle position, " writes the Agency.
the magazine also quotes the expression of public activist Yuri Palikuca, who decided that guys " merge "that they did not go to Kiev, where they have something to say." Traitors " no one would listen, " explained Palijchuk.
in Kiev the day when the battalion " Prykarpattya " left the area of special operations, was held against the methods of conducting ATO. Relatives of the soldiers, and also Authorized radical organizations required additional supplies of heavy weapons present hostilities and the change of leadership of the defense Ministry.