They could be back home, and part of an underground resistance against the Kremlin. You know; maybe grow some balls like literally any western country that started a civil conflict to change their leadership. French had a revolution, Americans had a revolution, Ukraine had a revolution, hell, even the Brits had a civil war.
Maybe the Russians should man-up, stop acting tough, and actually do something about Putin and his goofball oil-mafia that call themselves ‘a government’…
Don’t act like they have no choice, they just chose the easy option: buy the lies the Kremlin sells and hope you don’t die before your contract is done.