“Blast rocks barracks housing more than 200 Russian soldiers in Mariupol”
“On the evening of January 24, a blast rocked the barracks where more than 200 Russian soldiers were stationed in Mariupol, temporarily captured by the Russian invaders.
“There is information about an explosion in the barracks in Mariupol where more than 200 Russian soldiers were stationed. The enemy’s army suffered losses. The details are being clarified,” the Mariupol City Council posted on Telegram.”
“High-ranking Russian officials are defecting. This man is aiding them”
“Vladimir Osechkin says he was walking toward his dining room table, plates of spaghetti for his children in his hands, when he spotted the red laser dancing across the wall.
He knew what was coming.
Slamming off the lights, he says he and his wife pulled their children to the ground, hurrying out of sight and into a different area of the apartment. Minutes later, Osechkin says, a would-be assassin fired, mistaking hastily arrived police officers for the Russian dissident.
For the next 30 minutes, Osechkin told CNN, his wife and children lay on the floor. His wife, nearest their children, shielded them from more bullets during the September 12 attack.
“The last 10 years I do a lot of things to protect the human rights and other people. But in this moment, I understood that my mission to help other people created a very high risk to my family,” Osechkin told CNN from France, where he’s lived since 2015 after he fled Russia and claimed asylum. He now has full-time police protection.
He’s become the champion of a growing number of high-level Russian officials defecting to the West, emboldened and disgruntled by the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine. He says ex-generals and intelligence agents are among their number.”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/25/europe/russia-fsb-defectors-osechkin-intl-cmd/index.html