'This is like a movie': Ukraine's secret plan to convince 3 Russian pilots to defect with their planes

Last summer, a group of Ukrainian volunteers, working closely with their country’s intelligence service, apparently came close to persuading three Russian aviators who were in the midst of bombing Ukraine to defect with their warplanes in exchange for $1 million a piece.

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