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Pjotr Sauer in Kyiv

‘I am not made for war’: the men fleeing Ukraine to evade conscription

Soldiers in uniform throw their hats in the air.
Newly recruited soldiers celebrating the end of their training at a military base close to Kyiv. Photograph: Efrem Lukatsky/AP

The autumn cannot arrive soon enough for Dmytro, when his handlers have promised to get him out of Ukraine.

For the past month, the 31-year-old photographer from Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, has been holed up in his flat, rarely stepping outside, to avoid being conscripted into the army. “I want to leave the country. My mind can’t take being trapped here any more,” Dmytro said.

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