Human rights group Gulagu.net has announced that it will no longer deport people associated with the armed forces and security forces after being misled by paratrooper Pavlo Filatyev, the most notorious deserter from the Russian army, Meduza reports.
This was announced on Wednesday by Volodymyr Osechikin, the founder of Gulagu.net, who said the decision was made after a “negative experience” with Filatyev, who his organization helped to escape from Russia to France.
Osetkin states that the former Russian paratrooper admitted in an interview with the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter at the end of February that he “concealed from us and from the media information about the murders of Ukrainians in whose captivity he participated.”
According to an article in the Swedish press, Filatyev told reporters that “some of the prisoners we captured were later shot or hanged.” At the same time, he emphasized that he personally did not witness the crimes and learned about them only from other Russian servicemen.
The former paratrooper deserted after 2 months of fighting in Ukraine
Filatiev is by far the most famous defector from Vladimir Putin’s army, having given numerous interviews to Western media after being helped to flee the country.
In them, he talked about the understaffing of the Russian armed forces, as well as the robberies and murders committed by Putin’s military in Ukraine. He even suggested that the Kremlin leader might want to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine.
Filatyev also wrote a book about his experience serving in the Russian army and the battles he participated in in Ukraine. Osetekin says that the former paratrooper originally intended to transfer the proceeds from the sale of the book to Ukraine, but then changed his mind.
Gulagu.net helped several defectors from the Russian armed forces flee the country after the start of the war in Ukraine, among them Andrii Medvedev, a former commander of Wagner’s mercenaries, who ended up in Norway.
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Source: Hot News
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