A Russian Deserter's Flight to Norway Presents a Fraught Dilemma for His Host
Briefly

Sipping a $12 beer in one of the world's wealthiest capitals, Andrei Medvedev reflected on the question hanging over him since he left the battlefields of Ukraine: Is he a hero or a war criminal?He claims to have deserted from Russia's notorious Wagner mercenary force during the monumental battle for the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, and later to have escaped his native Russia by running across a frozen Arctic river.
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