"On February 25, police captain Farid Chitau, commander of the platoon of the riot police operative company" Plastun "of the Rosguard in the Krasnodar Territory, and 11 fighters from his company refused to comply with the order of the detachment commander to cross the Russian border and continue to Ukraine.

In Krasnodar, they were inspected and fired, ”Nastoyaschee Vremya quoted human rights activist

Pavel Chikau

as saying .



This is the first known case of refusal of Russian security forces to take part in hostilities after Russia's attack on Ukraine.