One reason is a sense of moral outrage at their country’s invasion. Read more at straitstimes.com.
DONBAS, Ukraine – The soldier knelt in the snow, aimed a rocket launcher and fired in the direction of Russian troops positioned about 1.6km away. He was set up at a Ukrainian firing position and looked just like the other Ukrainian troops fighting south of the city of Bakhmut in one of the most brutal theatres of the war.They are soldiers in a Ukrainian military unit made up entirely of Russians who are fighting and killing their own countrymen.
“A real Russian man doesn’t engage in such an aggressive war, won’t rape children, kill women and elderly people,” said one Russian fighter with the military call sign Caesar, ticking off atrocities committed by Russian soldiers that motivated him to leave his native St. Petersburg and fight for Ukraine. “That’s why I don’t have remorse. I do my job, and I’ve killed a lot of them.”
In interviews, some Russian soldiers said they were already living in Ukraine when Russian forces invaded last year and felt an obligation to defend their adopted country. Others, often with no military experience, crossed into Ukraine from Russia after the war began, moved by a sense that the Kremlin’s invasion was profoundly unjust.
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