To Escape War In Ukraine, More Russian Soldiers Are Deserting – Analysis

By Timofei Rozhanskiy

(RFE/RL) -- As fighting raged in an around Bakhmut amid Russia's unrelenting assault earlier this year turning the eastern Ukrainian city to rubble, a Russian conscript began plotting how he would desert shortly after being deployed there.

Anton (not his real name) said he was given a two-week leave...