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Today in Focus

Dodging the draft: one Ukrainian man’s story

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.5778 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

As the war grinds on and the death toll mounts, fewer Ukrainians are volunteering to fight. And some are going to desperate lengths to avoid it. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian.

0:10.0

Today, the Ukrainian army's

0:10.0

today the Ukrainian army's increasingly urgent need for new men and the men urgently

0:16.7

fleeing the country to avoid fighting. Hey investee, besty, it's Sim here, and Gosean Best is currently being sponsored by

0:30.8

Southeastern Railway.

0:32.3

Working at Southeastern is more than just getting passengers from A to B.

0:35.3

It's about the little moments that make a difference to their journey.

0:38.1

You can take pride in the work you do with South Eastern.

0:40.8

The role also offers good pay and benefits and amazing culture and great

0:45.0

opportunities that will help you feel satisfied and secure.

0:48.0

Southeastern is currently hiring a variety of roles from train driver to on board managers, conductors, station staff, and railway enforcement officers,

0:57.0

plus opportunities in engineering and management functions too.

1:01.0

Can you move people?

1:02.0

Search Sirt Southeastern Krias to apply now.

1:10.3

I start my trip in the afternoon and the last kilometers most dangerous.

1:17.0

So I go at night.

1:28.8

Somewhere along the border between Ukraine and Hungary, a man called Mirislav, treks alone through a forest, every once in a while stopping to check a map on his phone. The map itself looks ordinary.

1:37.9

It's not some secret map. No, it's ordinary map.

1:44.0

What makes it special? What he's paid somebody $500 for in cryptocurrency over telegram

1:50.0

are the instructions the map came with.

1:52.0

You will reach another village before going out the road looking around and listening.

1:58.0

If there is silence, go fast.

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