Although he exceeds draft age, Dmytro Rossuzhday was certain he would be press ganged into Moscow-backed Ukrainian rebel forces when his bus was stopped at the last checkpoint of the Russian-held part of Zaporizhzhia province.
But after he and his elderly mother spent the night on the bus with 16 others, Russian forces on Tuesday finally allowed them and hundreds of other people to cross into Ukrainian-controlled territory in the southeast.
