Russian soldiers who defected to fight for Ukraine have said they are driven by the desire to overthrow Vladimir Putin’s ‘FSB dictatorship’ and free their country from tyranny.
Two fighters – known only by their call signs ‘Caesar’ and ‘Quiet’ – said in rare interviews from the frontlines of Bakhmut in Ukraine that they defected from Putin’s military because the Russian’s despots regime ‘destroys people’.
The men, who are in their 40s, are fighting alongside Russian soldiers in the…