About 80 people who served in the occupied Crimea refused to fight against Ukraine, - Lattices

This happened after they were landed in the Kherson region and they realized that they were not waiting for training, as the commanders said, but to take part in the fighting against the Armed Forces.

According to the source, among the Russian Marines were conscripts who served no more than a few months, some did not even have time to take the oath. Some units suffered losses from mortar fire in the Kherson region.

"After that, they were returned to the Crimea, where they wrote reports of refusal to take part in hostilities. Those servicemen whose contracts were signed, despite the report, were involved in the war," the journalists said.

The rest, according to the source, were forced to withdraw the report, threatening to open a criminal case, but the pressure stopped after Putin's speech on March 5, which said that the war would not involve Russian army conscripts.