Russia has been advertising its "Volga" surrender radio-channel to all Ukrainians on the front lines. Its impossible to know real numbers, but basis recent media references, it may be increasingly effective.
So yours is the best explanation, especially given that this war is as much a propaganda war as anything
>So yours is the best explanation, especially given that this war is as much a propaganda war as anything
Yeah, better to surrender, spend a few months in Russia before being released, then to be splattered all over a trench. This is the third Ukrainian mobilization, and many of these people do not want to be there.