Russian defectors fighting for Ukraine are attacking their motherland and rolling across the border in tanks: reports

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Representatives of the Freedom of Russia Legion and the Russian Volunteer Corps holding a briefing near the border in northern Ukraine last year.
Representatives of the Freedom of Russia Legion and the Russian Volunteer Corps holding a briefing near the border in northern Ukraine last year.

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North Korea says it will expel US soldier Travis King, who ran across the border into its territory in July

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US Army soldier Travis King can reportedly be seen in this photo on a tour of the Joint Security Area in the village of Panmunjom before he crossed the border into North Korea.
US Army soldier Travis King can reportedly be seen in this photo on a tour of the Joint Security Area in the village of Panmunjom before he crossed the border into North Korea.

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One of Putin's guards who denounced the war and fled Russia says he's being pursued even in South America

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Russian dissident Vitaly Brizhaty standing in uniform in a verdant area, in an undated photo.
Vitaly Brizhaty in uniform.

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Putin doesn't even trust his own bodyguards and gives them fake travel plans, says former guard who defected

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A composite image of head-and-shoulder shots showing, on the left: President Vladimir Putin on a train, looking out of the window, on October 28, 2013, and right: former FSO officer Vitaly Brizhaty in an interview released September 2023.
Left: President Vladimir Putin on a train in 2013.

Putin lives in an 'information vacuum' and never uses a cellphone or the internet, a Russian intelligence officer who defected says

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Vladimir Putin in Moscow
Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Russia-Africa International Parliamentary Conference, on March 20, 2023 in Moscow.

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