On a draft website in Ukraine, waiting for a chance to expect goodbye to say goodbye
The big metal gate stands in a small crowd waiting in tense and dark. Most of them look at the plastic bags that are both stress and extremely heavy -weight – all for people who will lead to war.
“Where is my dad? Where is my father?” A boy in a camouflage coat asks on the gray door. When his mother told him to be patient, two women give each other comfortable to each other.
Svitlana Vakar, his 2-year-old granddaughter, Maxim cried, crying, crying, as he caught his hand. By deleting his eyes, Maxim’s red “paw patrol coffee” to protect him from winter colds, then ends a long kiss on the head.
Maxim’s father, he was on my way to work, he hired those morning. He was able to send a message to his mother: It was taken to this military collection point on the edge of Kiev – that day with dozens of other men around the Ukrainian capital. It will be sent for processing, they will be sent on a night for hiring the main military education in the morning.
“Why do you lead him to the family? He said to the family, Vakarla Vakar to children:” Mrs. Andar, starting the stove.
At the beginning Russia’s full-scale occupation of Ukraine In 2022, men flocked to hiring centers. However, after the three-year grinding war, the volunteers are drying. Now men are waiting for sign documents to arrive before visiting hiring centers – or try to be found.
He faced severe troops and severe losses, the army of Ukraine was To follow the dodgers to help increase their ranks. In some cases, it means taking men from street or buses to get rid of the streets or buses: jeans, suits, gym shorts. It is so fast that men are always so often they do not know what your loved ones happened or where they are happening and what families say.
Some are in the isolated object, here in a few hours before and in the dark, you are brought to say goodbye to friends and family trek and deliver the basics for the way ahead.
The loss is all over Ukraine, faces of fallen covers and monuments extend on city streets. Among all the sacrifices, the sympathy may be in sympathy, not afraid of the service. About millions of people fight for Ukrainian servicemen – there are children and families.
Incorrid, the pre-strengthened sorrows on the screen, live with another aspect of the widespread connection. Notifications were notified of the notifications of many men in the inside; Some relatives noted the problems of documentation around freedom or bureaucratic mistakes.
Mrs. Vakar, Son Artem, 32 years old, he said, “he said,” he said in January and was taken to the recruitment center.
“What reaction of your mother can?” said. He threw his western blue cigarettes into a white plastic bag with some potatoes and eggs, then rushed with Maxim to the point of collection waiting excitedly in the dark.
In all minutes, a door in the door would be opened. One soldier would start naming a name – “Roman” “Oleg” – and someone inside the crowd would long for ahead.
As long as 6:45 hours, more people continued as far as he expected between 15 and 20.
The composition of the bags, he said about how people were suddenly taken. Phone charging devices. Socks. Underwear. Toothbrushes. A warm coat. Many in the door also plastic containers with food – Borscht, Macaroni – to help facilitate the sharp passage of military exercise.
Ms. Vakar Fed Maxim 6: 50 a snack. Soon “Vakar” was called. The list of military names and other other attack rifles, and the other took the other to the asphalt lane with benches. This is where he can see his son for about 20 minutes.
The door saved the planking that allows visitors to return. Their bags are already empty, many are left with tears that flowing their faces.
The center sits at the end of a winding road away from any public transport. Some people have trucked as the taxis expected; Others called on husbands or valentines to be found only in the recruitment.
38, 38, who searched his husband, said he took an hour to reach the nearest bus stop, and then he took an hour to find the door. He asked only his name should be used outside the fear of revenge. When he breathed, he ran to the door, but he said.
Others were still coming, and some were carried by DAHF oils. More than one amazed, “Where do I go?” Or “How does the line work?”
Time may be the last chance to say goodbye. In the mornings, the big yellow buses crossed the doors with the marks of “Ukrainian Armed Forces”! Visitors may be from 6:30 to 8 in the morning – after that, the buses are followed by 45 days of main training, a unit is followed.
More men are brought to replace the minibus during the day. Thus, the evening, which visits the evening from 4 to 8 pm, the evening, filling the relatives of those taken only a few hours ago.
All visitors do not do in time – a man and a woman who came on 8:14ps was turned away.
However, Anya did to see her husband working in McDonald’s. It was an accident when he emerged in 15 minutes.
“He is not a soldier,” he said. “I don’t know how to serve.”
Alik, after his husband was thrown at the school, he said he was a bad feeling when he called him. It was still an expected challenge, but it was not expected in months, but less destroyed when it came.
“I’m shocking,” he said, list the reasons why his husband did not serve with a bad back. He said he would find something to free him, finding medical documents, to find it. He said it was this for tomorrow. Now he had to go to that daughter. The girl did not know that his father was compiled.
“I don’t tell him when I will explain and how it was,” Anya said the words with tears. He can’t talk anymore, he began to go down the dark road. Subsequent moments, the door open, open, “a line of civilian civilians in civilian clothes,” The duty of Ukrainian citizens, “he said.
The white van entered in front, but the crowd cleaned in front of the door. Before the sun goes out, more people form a line again, plastic bags are filled in their hands.
A piece of keepiniuk Contributing report.