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More discontent in the Russia. A large group of Russian National Guardsmen are suing Putin's government refusing to be deployed to Ukraine. This comes after the Kremlin tried to deploy them to Ukraine but many refused and 12 were fired. These are forces outside the normal RuAF regulars that "shouldn't" have been sent into Ukraine, just like conscripts weren't.

After Mikhail Benyash, a Russian lawyer, said he would be defending a group of national guardsmen who refused to join the war in Ukraine, he was inundated with calls from across the country.

“A lot of people don’t want to go and fight,” Benyash said by telephone from the southern city of Krasnodar, adding that about 1,000 people had been in touch with his team, as he pursues the first court case to officially reveal dissent inside the ranks of Russia’s security forces over the invasion.

The 12 national guardsmen who were fired after refusing to go to Ukraine were members of Rosgvardia, a militarised force separate from the army that was established in 2016 to maintain public order and fight crime.

The guardsmen had been deployed before the invasion to occupied Crimea for military exercises, according to Pavel Chikov, head of Agora, the Russian human rights group. The day after the war began on February 24, they received orders to cross into Ukraine but refused, Chikov wrote on his channel in the Telegram messaging app.

The men argued that the order was unlawful: they were not soldiers, but members of a domestic force whose duties did not extend beyond Russia.

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