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But the labor minister, Kim Moon-soo, said not only might that violate national and international law, but it would result in more deserters.

French investigating magistrates collected evidence from Syrian regime deserters and prison survivors as they built the case.

The numbers of known deserters may be small compared to Russia’s overall troop strength, but they are an indicator of morale.

“I did the right thing,” said another deserter who goes by the nickname Sparrow, who is living in hiding in Kazakhstan while he waits for his asylum applications to be processed.

An investigation by the AP in 2020 detailed how the two like-minded warriors joined up to train a motley crew of Venezuelan military deserters at clandestine camps in Colombia.