'People are thinking of deserting, and I understand them and I myself am thinking how to do it,' the marine said.
, an independent Russian publication, on the condition of anonymity.
Russian naval infantry soldiers walk as they guard the Orsk Russian landing ship anchored in the Ukraine's Black Sea port of Sevastopol on March 2, 2014, with a Russian naval flag painted on the gates. Fleeing from the front line in Ukraine is"probably" the only way to stay alive, one marine was reported as saying.garrison in Pavlivka, a town southwest of the recently annexed Donetsk region, on November 2.
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