one of the deserters we spoke to, he had been fighting at the front near bakhmut, and he said the sheer horror of trench warfare and also the thought of his wife and two small children at home, and in the end, he quit. so many of his comrades had been killed. he was sort of torn between staying in the trenches and fighting for revenge, and fleeing in order to be with his wife and children in romania, which is what he did in the end. the third reason i think, is resentment. i think a lot of people, the recruiting process has been pretty crude — military patrols, military police on the edge of towns or in the centre of towns at railway stations, even knocking on people's doors orworkplaces, pretty much rounding people up. also some sort of chaos in terms of conscription. we heard of reports in housing blocks, the police arriving at dawn to take away someone, to put them in the army and their mother telling them