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Russian paratrooper flees to France denouncing army 'chaos' / 32HB8MC
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Suddenly notorious for a scathing first-person account of the war in Ukraine published online, Russian paratrooper Pavel Filatiev arrived in France seeking political asylum Sunday after quitting his country following a fifteen year prison sentence for "slander."
"I realised that I wouldn't get anywhere here and my lawyers couldn't do anything for me in Russia," Filatiev told AFP in the asylum seekers' waiting area at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport. SOUNDBITES