Russian Deputy Minister Flees to US in First Known Case

Good news! Are the rats abandoning the ship of the warmonger and megalomaniac Putin the Terrible!

When will the lethargic and apathetic Russian people finally get rid of Putin the Terrible! The world is watching and waiting!

Good luck to this man! Hope, he will survive!

"A recently dismissed Russian deputy minister has fled the country and is believed to have reached the United States, marking the first known case of an official of this rank escaping Russia, according to multiple reports on Thursday, April 30. ..."

Russian Deputy Minister Flees to US in First Known Case

Russian Deputy Minister Denis Butsaev. Possibly, a hero!

Was passiert, wenn russische Soldaten sich weigern zu töten

Sehr empfehlenswert! Anscheinend gibt es hunderte wenn nicht sogar tausende von russischen Deserteuren/Kriegsdienstverweigerern

The Russian soldiers fleeing Putin's army | Documentary

Recommendable! Why are not more Russians fleeing and deserting Putin the Terrible!

Russo-Ukraine War: More Than 25,000 Russian criminal cases against deserting Russian Soldiers reported

Good news, if confirmed! Why are not more Russian soldiers deserting! How large is the number of unreported desertions?

A plea to Russian soldiers please desert in large numbers! Show the world, the Russian people do not mean to fight or support the wars of the megalomaniac and war criminal Putin the Terrible! You know in your hearts and minds this is an unjust war of aggression that needs to end immediately! Remember when Hitler invaded the former Soviet Union.

I personally remember having seen only a very few such reports ever about deserting deserting Russian soldiers since the Russo-Ukrainian War started in February of 2022.

When will the lethargic, apathetic Russian Slav(e)s/Serfs finally get rid of their last tsar, the megalomaniac and war criminal Putin the Terrible! Please Russian people make the world a better, more peaceful place again!

How many more young Russian men have to die or be maimed because Putin the Terrible has conducted a “special military operation” in the Ukraine since February of 2022!

"British intelligence, citing Russian media, posted on Monday that the number of criminal cases brought in Russia against its soldiers for going absent without leave (AWOL) have so far reached 20,538, including both those who have deserted and failed to carry out orders.

Russian media outlet Mediazona stated that most of the cases in that period, between February 2022 to the end of May 2025, were cases against of soldiers who went AWOL. (In Russia, that is punishable by up to 10 years in prison). More than 86 percent of the cases have been prosecuted, he media outlet wrote. ..."

More Than 20.5K Cases of Russian Soldiers Going AWOL, Report Says "“There are a range of factors that can lead a soldier to desert,” British Intelligence said. “Brutal discipline in the Russian Armed Forces, poor medical treatment, and inadequate military training.”

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Deserter reveals secrets of top-secret Russian nuclear base. Really!

Something fishy here! BBC did not really protect the deserter. He could easily be identified from the video footage, unless the person shown was not the deserter himself, but an actor or stand in etc. Was this so called deserter perhaps intentionally send by Putin the Terrible for disinformation?

Russians Fleeing Their Country By Boat End Up In Alaska To Avoid War Mobilization

Recommendable! Unfortunately, not enough young Russian men deserted!

'Impossible to refuse to fight': Russian deserters tell DW about their escape

Recommendable! Unfortunately, there are too few Russian soldiers deserting. No Russian soldier should execute a war started by a megalomaniac war criminal like Putin the Terrible! Western countries should probably announce that any deserting Russian soldier (except for war criminals) should be granted immediate asylum!

Russia's Wagner Group high ranking commander requests asylum in Norway

Good news! Very interesting and possibly consequential development! At 26 he was a high ranking commander (general)? What war crimes evidence did he bring to Norway?

Why Ukraine’s Top General Urges Tougher Punishment for Deserters

How serious is the problem with Ukrainian deserters?

How does it compare to to high numbers of Russian deserters and draft dodgers?

"... Military observers, both at home and abroad, have credited [general] Zaluzhny for welding the AFU [Armed Forces of Ukraine] into a generally effective force. But even 11 months into the war, Ukraine’s army remains a  hodge-podge of formations of widely-varying skills and capacities, ranging from regular combined arms brigades performing on a par with NATO units, to territorial defense battalions stitched together from local towns and village, to bands of armed volunteers at times not even acknowledging an AFU officer’s right to give them orders. ...

Harsher sentences generally are probated so that the "refusnik", Zaluzhny said, might stay with his unit and hopefully fight better the next time. ..."

EXPLAINED: Why Ukraine’s Top General Urges Tougher Punishment for Deserters | KyivPost Top general Zaluzhny praises law setting out harsher punishment for desertion, poor discipline, though it’s subject to signing by Zelensky

Credits: «Eine Armee gründet auf Disziplin»: Die ukrainische Führung setzt auf härtere Strafen für Deserteure