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The original was posted on /r/worldnews by /u/dramism on 2023-09-12 14:20:25.
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A Russian pilot who defected with a Mi-8 helicopter last month has inspired a massive uptick in calls to Ukraine’s surrender hotline, an official said on Monday.
Andrii Yusov, of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine, told Radio Svoboda that there has been a 70 percent daily uptick of calls to “I Want to Live”, a state-run project which allows Russian soldiers to arrange to give themselves up rather than fight in the war.
Yusov did not provide an exact number of how many people have called but did say that there “there will be a reward” for anyone thinking of defecting, as per the Ukrainian Pravda.
His successful arrival in Ukraine was said to have marked the end of a six-month secret defection plot he had worked out with Ukrainian intelligence that included moving his family out of Russia.
In an interview published by Ukraine’s defense-intelligence agency last week, Kuzminov said that he chose to defect because he did not want to be involved in war crimes, according to a translation by CNN.
Russia’s Prosecutor General’s office blocked the site in mid-October last year, by which time it claimed to have received more than 2,000 inquiries.
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autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 3 years ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A Russian pilot who defected with a Mi-8 helicopter last month has inspired a massive uptick in calls to Ukraine’s surrender hotline, an official said on Monday.
Andrii Yusov, of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine, told Radio Svoboda that there has been a 70 percent daily uptick of calls to “I Want to Live”, a state-run project which allows Russian soldiers to arrange to give themselves up rather than fight in the war.
Yusov did not provide an exact number of how many people have called but did say that there “there will be a reward” for anyone thinking of defecting, as per the Ukrainian Pravda.
His successful arrival in Ukraine was said to have marked the end of a six-month secret defection plot he had worked out with Ukrainian intelligence that included moving his family out of Russia.
In an interview published by Ukraine’s defense-intelligence agency last week, Kuzminov said that he chose to defect because he did not want to be involved in war crimes, according to a translation by CNN.
Russia’s Prosecutor General’s office blocked the site in mid-October last year, by which time it claimed to have received more than 2,000 inquiries.
The original article contains 382 words, the summary contains 195 words. Saved 49%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!