“Comments by people who say they would kill their officers or flee the country in a war are reprehensible.”
It was an unwinnable and unjust war.
The only course of actions against your government, when it has entered an unjust and unwinnable war, would be to kill the officers or flee the country. The other alternative is to throw down your weapons and put up your hands and walk to the other side.
Are you related to Zelenskyy?
Plenty of German soldiers, along with foreign fighters who were forced to fight alongside them, did just that, once they knew the war was lost. Those German soldiers took an oath to Hitler, not the country, to fight to the death. Many of them violated that oath, because they knew the futility of dying for a lost cause.