Are Russians but they understood long ago that this is “an unjust war” and decided they didn’t want to side with them Wladimir Putin in the fighting being fought in Ukraine.
Are deserters and joined the fight by the Russian Liberation Legiona clandestine military group that believes the “eyes” of the Russians are opening and beginning to understand that they “are not going to benefit in any way from this war,” as Caesar, spokesman for this core, explained.
It is not known how many there are, but there will be more than a hundred, nor who they are, to protect their families in Russia. They fight, not against Russiabut against the regime of Vladimir Putin.
“I’m not fighting my home country. I’m fighting some zombies and I’m fighting the Putin regime. Not against the people, but against evil.”
They are hundreds you russian soldiers What defected, most after automatic recruitment. Some of them fled to other countries, others preferred to embrace the same War but on the other side of the barricade. Tykhiy is one of those fighters, living with Ukrainians is easy, not least because many speak Russian, but the most important thing, he stressed, is that they “do a job”, they are “liberation of Ukraine”, be like him said, “on the same wavelength”.
Ukrainian military units have phone lines especially for Russians who want to join their cause or just want to surrender.