Anton Osenev says the Russians tried to mobilize him to fight his own countryImage caption: Anton Osenev says the Russians tried to mobilize him to fight his own country
Every day, convoys of people arrive at a supermarket parking lot in the city of Zaporizhzhia, escorted by police vehicles.
They have made the perilous journey out of Russian-occupied territory in southern Ukraine, eventually reaching the relative safety of this regional capital still firmly under Ukrainian control.
Yet this is one of four regions of Ukraine that Russia is formally annexing, after a five-day exercise called a referendum that Ukraine and the West condemned as a farce.
Among those who handed over their papers to police is Anton Osenev, who says the Russians twice tried to mobilize him to fight against his own country, around his hometown of Melitopol.
“We weren’t home for the first attempt,” he says. “The second time they stayed at our house for a while.”
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