{"id":7957,"date":"2025-11-17T16:55:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T17:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/?p=7957"},"modified":"2025-11-17T18:38:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T18:38:05","slug":"awol-ukrainian-soldier-detonates-grenade-during-traffic-stop-activist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/17\/awol-ukrainian-soldier-detonates-grenade-during-traffic-stop-activist\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018AWOL Ukrainian soldier\u2019 detonates grenade during traffic stop \u2013 activist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The incident was reportedly triggered by a mobilization squad\u2019s attempts to demand bribe from the man<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A man who detonated a grenade after being pulled over by police in Western Ukraine is a soldier wanted for going absent without leave, a local activist has claimed.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old suspect was taken to hospital with injuries, the Lviv Region police said in a statement, without clarifying whether any officers were wounded.<\/p>\n<p>Anti-corruption activist Ivan Sprynsky has alleged that the man is a soldier wanted for going AWOL and that the patrol that stopped him was accompanied by two conscription officers. He claimed the Military Law Enforcement Service had demanded a bribe in exchange for removing him from the wanted list.<\/p>\n<p>He said the blast occurred <em>&ldquo;during an emotional confrontation,&rdquo;<\/em> adding that military police and counterintelligence are now pressuring the wounded man to stay silent and preparing to portray the incident as a <em>&ldquo;personal dispute.&rdquo;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"RT\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/68fba27b20302766876c5638.png\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/626926-four-dead-man-fleeing-ukraine\/\">Four dead after man blows himself up trying to flee Ukraine \u2013 police<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A similar incident occurred last month, when a man attempting to flee the country blew himself up and killed three others while his documents were being inspected at a railway station near the Belarusian border.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine&rsquo;s armed forces have been plagued by a wave of desertions amid heavy battlefield losses. The Telegraph reported in August that since February 2022, at least 650,000 fighting-age men have fled Ukraine despite martial-law travel restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Kiev has also struggled to curb draft evasion, while numerous reports and videos on social media show increasingly abusive recruitment tactics by enlistment officers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The incident was reportedly triggered by a mobilization squad\u2019s attempts to demand bribe from the man A man who detonated a grenade after being pulled over by police in Western Ukraine is a soldier wanted for going absent without leave, a local activist has claimed. The 37-year-old suspect was taken&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/17\/awol-ukrainian-soldier-detonates-grenade-during-traffic-stop-activist\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7964,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7957\/revisions\/7964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}