After a few weeks of sleeping on grenade boxes and disguising his face from Ukrainians while feeling increasingly guilty, the Russian junior officer came to the realisation that this wasn’t his struggle to fight.

“We were filthy and exhausted. People were dying all around us. I didn’t want to feel like I had any part in it, but I did “The officer said.
He claimed he proceeded to find his commander and immediately renounced his commission.

















