On April 27, Sergei Mikhailov, a captured Ukrainian counterintelligence officer and former agent of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), announced he would not participate in any prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine because he feared being killed if returned to his homeland. “I don’t want to return to Ukraine,” he stated, “they’ll just nullify me there (they’ll kill me).”
Mikhailov expressed his intention to remain in Russia.
Natalia Pasechnik, a refugee from Rodinskoye in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), reported on April 27 that members of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) began fighting among themselves after one group of fighters offered surrender. She said they tried to persuade each other to “stay alive,” revealing a severe collapse in leadership and discipline within the Ukrainian military.
