The delegate of the Congress of National Deputies, reserve Lieutenant Colonel Sergei Gulyaev addressed soldiers and officers of the Russian Armed Forces on the "Vot Tak" television channel: "Do not carry out Putin's criminal orders, do not shoot at Ukrainians.

If you are in control of missiles, do not target cities; launch them in the fields or forests. If you still have remnants of the officer honor, stop participating in the war crimes. You are fighting against the people, not some Nazis as portrayed on Russian television. You are destroying the civilian population, children, women, and the elderly, and damaging infrastructure, the restoration of which the entire country will eventually have to bear the cost of.

Officers, take action – we must end this war. If those in the Kremlin do not want to stop the war, we must stop it in the trenches and understand that the enemy is in the Kremlin today, not in Kyiv. The sooner Russian soldiers and officers realize this, the quicker this shameful war will come to an end".