Brezhnev’s great-grandson joined Russia’s ‘special military operation’ to ‘see Nazis.’ Now he’s a Ukrainian POW who says the Nazi threat is a myth.

According to Meduza, the adopted great-grandson of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev has ended up on the other side of the war his family name once symbolized. Anton Milaev joined Russia's invasion of Ukraine — by his own account, to 'see the Nazis' the Kremlin says are running the country. He was captured in the spring of twenty twenty-six. Now a prisoner of war, Milaev appears in an interview released by 'I Want to Live,' the Ukrainian project that encourages Russian soldiers to surrender. His verdict on the pretext for the whole campaign: the Nazi threat, he says, is a myth.

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