“We are fighting to overthrow Putin”. So one of the many soldiers Russian soldiers who went through the ranks of Kyiv in the socalled “Legion of Free Russia”a special contingent of troops created to counter the tsar’s power fell into increasing crisis after the fighting began Ukraine. Rebellion, revenge, outrage at the authoritarian and often ruthless way Moscow’s generals operate in a foreign country: there are many reasons that have prompted some comrades to switch sides. “I heard they were there for the last 24 hours 300 requests to join our legion, said one of Putin’s former soldiers in a press office organized by Interfax Ukraine.
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“our safety and that of our families who stayed in Russia without the opportunity to leave. If we talk, our relatives will be persecuted.” They did not even reveal the number of members of the “Legion of Free Russia, only that they are “many and that “military and former military personnel and Russian citizens and not only (as Belarusians) who are join us, are part of it.”.
The Moscow military, which went into battle with Kyiv, therefore made an appeal “to all Russian citizens and soldiers: join us in fighting the Putin regime, hoping that “in Russia it will still there are conscientious people who will help us oust Putin”. The three made the decision to join the proUkrainian legion of Russian soldiers in prison, where they ended up after one of them said “saw all the massacres that Putin had committed at the hands of Russian soldiers: looting the houses of ordinary citizens, killing of civilians, destruction of kindergartens, houses, orphanages, hospitals, civilians used as shields ». Among the reasons that convinced them to join the Legion of Free Russia was the goal of “stopping the deaths of civilians, because the sooner the war ends, the fewer casualties there will be on both sides”.