By Pierre Polard
Posted yesterday at 7:58pm, updated yesterday at 7:58pm
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STORY – Somewhere in Kyiv, in offices that are as banal as they are secret, the phones ring from morning to night.
Special Representative for Kyiv
Simple plastic receivers, neutral and procedural voices: apparently a banal switchboard. But on the other end of the line, somewhere in Russia or right at the front, Russian soldiers are asking for surrender. The phone line they call aptly says, “I want to live.”
“Someone gave me your number,” one of them begins. That someone told me I could surrender voluntarily.
– Are you already mobilized? the operator replies as normally as possible.
– Yes. I’ll be transferred to Kherson soon.
– Go to our Telegram group. Talk to our automatic chat. Fill out the form.
– I can not. Our commander confiscated our phones. Maybe I can find a disposable phone… But god forbid I have to use it there. I especially want to know what to do if the Ukrainians attack us. Should I throw myself straight onto my knees? What should I do?
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