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HUR Confirms Death of Russian Helicopter Pilot Who Defected to Ukraine With Mi-8 (www.kyivpost.com)

submitted 7 months ago by Rose to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

He most probably changed his name and is part of some witness protection scheme or so. I doubt that Russia can go after someone like him unless he made a mistake that somehow gave his identitiy away. But he also should be well aware of the risks, so to me it seems unlikely.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

No need to actively doing an error... being taken in photo by a tourist could be enough (with the tagging capacity of facebook for example). We saw his face on media far too much to not being able to recognize it automatically...