FIVE Russian pilots set free by Angola’s Unita rebels have arrived in Zambia after walking for many days through war-torn Angola. The airmen, whose two planes had been flying on contract for aid agencies, delivering food to government-held towns, were shot down by Unita last year. Officials said the famished pilots had arrived in the western provincial town of Mongu on Sunday after Jonas Savimbi’s rebels set them free and told them to flee for their lives. “Yes, they are now here in Zambia, in the town of Mongu. We are making arrangements to transfer them to Lusaka,” a government official in Mongu said. Another government official in Lusaka told Reuters that the government would liaise with the Russian embassy on the transfer of the men to the Russian authorities.