People will only fight for what they believe in
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Subtitle by Julia Rakhmetova and Rhod Mackenzie
The morale of Ukrainian military personnel is well known to be abysmal. Except for lunatic Nazi forces, the Ukrainian military is largely unwilling to fight.
This sentiment is examined in this video by reference to a report commissioned by President Poroshenko himself into the reason Ukrainian naval personnel in particular are tending to abandon ship, as it were, and, in this case, going over to the Russian side, the Crimea.
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