Russian soldier defects, tells CBS News he and his comrades were "lied to," and soon realized Ukraine "war was wrong"

"Paratrooper Pavel Filatyev told Patta that he was so disgusted with the war that he defected
and decided to tell his story — despite it putting him at great personal risk.....

Patta asked the Russian soldier if he felt deceived.

"I know that we have been tricked for many years, and everything shown on [Russian] state TV has nothing to do with reality," he said. "Every person in Russia knows this. We have been lied to for many years and, unfortunately, now the same thing is happening in the war." CBS