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How a Defecting Russian Pilot Duped His Own Crew

‘NOBODY WANTS THIS WAR’

“Nobody could put up any resistance,” he said, because he was the only one who knew how to fly the hijacked Russian military chopper.

Allison Quinn

News Editor

Published Sep. 5 2023 8:16AM EDT

An Mi-8 helicopter is shown in this undated file photograph — Reuters

Allison Quinn

Allison Quinn

News Editor

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