At least 80 Russian Marines refused to take part in the fighting in Ukraine after they were landed in the Kherson region. This is reported by "

It is noted that some of the units suffered losses after mortar shelling from Ukraine.. After that, the military realized that they were not going to have exercises, as the commanders had said, and did not want to join the battle.

As the interlocutor of the publication said, among the servicemen there were conscripts who “served no more than a few months, some did not even have time to take the oath”. They were returned to Crimea, where they wrote reports refusing to participate in hostilities.. The contractors continued to participate in the war.

“The rest of the employees of the military prosecutor’s office were forced to withdraw the report, threatening to initiate a criminal case, but the pressure stopped after Vladimir Putin’s speech on March 5, stating that conscripts of the Russian army would not be involved in the war,” G’rati writes..