On average, 2 to 3 servicemen committed suicide weekly in the zone of operations in the Donbas. This was reported by the chief military prosecutor of Ukraine Anatoly Matios on the air of the TV channel "112 Ukraine".

"A very sad statistics of suicides among people who have been for a long time (on the territory of military operations). On average, 2-3 people a week, "he said..

"These are those who are in the ATU zone," he said, adding that the maintenance of suicide statistics among combatants is not within the competence of the military prosecutor's office.

Matios stressed that more than 500 thousand people took part in the battles in the east of Ukraine.

"And the world statistics says that up to 80% of them have those or other signs of post-traumatic syndrome, which consists both in cruelty in the family, and in aggression, and not in the perception of a peaceful life," he added..

Source: Ukrainian truth.