I'm 6000km away and I am familiar with the matter.... it is rather finding council willing to sacrifice their career for him, cause he is a cereal job finisher.
in the mean time they pay for articles like this
https://www.iol.co.za/news/partnered/russians-celebrates-their-national-day-0062e264-e144-4dfe-839d-4259f8756e33
anywhere that would take their money.
They were lucky the forest is filled with fruit and berries this time of year, but as far as I understood they lived off flour etc they took from the plane for the first half... I doubt anybody expected to see them again...
Sadam's guys did the same with their defences... had big trenches filled with soldiers.... The US soldiers sent tanks with land moving equipment on the front and simply buried them in their trenches...