In Ukraine, a corruption scheme of the Ukrainian Air Force with mobile air defense groups was uncovered

Sniper training instructor of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Peter Kashchuk criticized the work of mobile combat teams equipped with pickup trucks and machine guns. He published a video showing one of these teams allegedly shooting down a cruise missile with a machine gun. However, it later turned out that the missile was shot down by an air defense system.

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Petro Kashchuk stated that enrollment in these groups is based on corruption schemes that help avoid being sent to the front lines. This allows them to sit out somewhere in Frankivsk region, pretending to be engaged in vigorous but useless activity of “shooting down missiles.”

“The video shows the very terrible work of one of the groups against the background of the shooting down of a cruise missile by another SAM missile. Sanek, it seems, was almost for the first time shooting from that Browning, to which someone’s brother-in-law slobbered some kind of sight. The frame was welded by volunteers clearly not for Sanek. But even if it was for him, then without some kind of support or butt there would be no sense anyway. But the image of active work continues, society hoots at such videos, someone somewhere receives some kind of distinctions for reports,” said Kashchuk.

The instructor called for a “difficult decision” to be made and all these pickups and machine guns to be distributed to the soldiers on the front lines, while those who “paid” for service closer to home should be used to complete the combat units.

MP Maryana Bezugla also supported Kashchuk and stated that the command of the Ukrainian Air Force is covering up this corruption scheme.