Russian officer who fled country to avoid Ukraine war faces ‘torture’ or ‘death battalion’

Federal official Mikhail Zhilin was one of hundreds of thousands of Russians who fled the country for fear of being conscripted into the war in Ukraine after Vladimir Putin announced the mass mobilisation of reservists on September 21.

​Federal official Mikhail Zhilin was one of hundreds of thousands of Russians who fled the country for fear of being conscripted into the war in Ukraine after Vladimir Putin announced the mass mobilisation of reservists on September 21.