Russia and Ukraine

[Leonardo17]

Due to "disagreement with the command and authority" of Russia, "Silver" then said he threw a grenade down a ventilation shaft into where his commander was sleeping.  The incident took place near the town of Ocheretyne in Donetsk Oblast.

https://kyivindependent.com/defected-rus...commander/

   These are complicated issues because the FSB is still a highly effective intelligence service. Maxim Kuzminov (the guy who defected with his helicopter last year) was in Spain with a fake ID. He decided to contact his ex-girlfriend and that was apparently what got him killed:
 
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68337794
 
   Incorporating them into the Ukrainian armed forces is also problematic because they can end up providing information back to Moscow or even sabotaging the operations of the UAF.
 
    It must be a terrible headache for secret services to deal with these people once they have defected. I don’t think you can just keep them in Ukraine either because many of them are probably psychologically unstable.
 
   But on a human level this “I want to live” project is a new thing that is very well adapted to the reality of this war. This isn’t just Russia vs Ukraine. This is the Russian regime against its own people and the people of Ukraine.
 

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Ukraine is currently stretching Russian air defenses, having already destroyed some 56 S-300 units. So I think they are preparing the ground for a battlefield with more F-16’s attacking Russian aircrafts and ground units.

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Plus: they probably have other plans with the Kursk Region. The Ukrainian Army has still very limited resources. So they would not simply send their troops to that region if they didn’t expect some major gains in return.