Men are caught on the streets, taken away from work, taken out of apartments or just off buses.

All their documents are taken away, the ‘newly-recruited’ are dressed in uniforms without identification marks and sent to the front.

For the ‘troops’ not to run away - they are transported in closed railway cars…

This is what a Donetsk resident, taken prisoner in Ukraine, tells about the ‘special rescue operation of Russia’.

‘They put us [in a vehicle] and drove somewhere. We didn’t know where we were going. And then we saw… Our task, as I understand it, we were like construction battalion… Like, dig trenches. It is unclear why and for what,’ says the ‘mobilized soldier’.

According to him, he did not take part in hostilities, but only guarded the checkpoint following orders of his commanders.