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A Ukrainian soldier has joined illegal armed formations in Donbas in order to escape the punishment for a serious crime, according to the press service of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) Headquarters.
"Yesterday, a serviceman of one of our units committed a serious crime. Hoping to avoid the punishment, he defected to the enemy," the report says.
As UNIAN reported earlier, combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 42 times in the past 24 hours.