A 48-year-old Ukrainian, Roman Shmarev, exchanged maps with his daughter on his phone showing the location of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Is this a crime? It is in wartime, according to security services who tracked him down and prosecuted him, then negotiated a plea deal with him – to set an example.
military commissariat here. follow me and i will bring you there. sergei tells me he was freed after paying the policeman a bribe of 5,000 roubles, about $80, and continued cycling. the nervous tension was very strong. the column of military cars arrived with roadblocks. i did not stop cycling. we spent the whole night in the neutral territory between the borders. it was hard to stand still. there were a lot of cars and people. many were suffering from headaches. some were losing consciousness. there was a lack of water and food. after an exhausting 1a hours, sergei was able to cross into georgia and then took a flight to istanbul in turkey. i went by myself without my family. i wouldn t want them to live through what i had to. i believe that it is impossible to change anything in russia, at least now, because we have a siloviki state, state of force, and we are not able to change