The Russian pilot who defected to Ukraine with a Mi-8 helicopter is now providing key aviation intelligence to Ukraine, defense agency says

Bloody legend. We actually found one: a good Russian.

Now if only the rest of his idiot former comrades would smarten up and do the same.

edit: i want to note that this sentiment is not an ok one to sincerely hold. being russian doesn't make anyone evil. they are indeed human beings who largely didn't want any part in this shitshow and were coerced into doing it by corrupt, greedy, incompetent leadership.

intelligence and bravery are traits that any person can possess no matter where they come from, and goodness knows that if the united states rounded up all of my dearest friends and then ordered me to pilot a helicopter and invade mexico, i myself would have been too chickenshit to defect under the full knowledge that my mother's few remaining years of life would be pure agony and suffering in a gulag, and that everyone else i've ever loved will die screaming at the hands of the united states federal government.