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‘Our Commander Is Leaving With Us’: Putin’s Troops Openly Plot to Ditch ‘Stupid’ War

‘Shoot yourself in the legs’

“It’s not desertion, because we shouldn’t be on this territory.”

Allison Quinn
Allison Quinn 

News Editor

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Reuters

Russian soldiers are apparently so sick of Vladimir Putin’s “stupid” war in Ukraine that they are now openly plotting with their own commanders to go AWOL.

The Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s Main Intelligence Directorate released a recording

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Allison Quinn

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