By Wendell Steavenson with Anastasiia Parafeniuk
In June 2023 Taras, a 35-year-old project manager at the Kyiv School of Economics, was stopped by military recruitment officers as he was walking in a park in Kyiv and handed his mobilisation papers. Within a day and a half he was ordered to report to a training centre. Inna Sovsun, his ex-wife, was shocked by the speed and arbitrariness of the summons. They shared custody of their son, Martyn, now ten years old, and she suddenly found herself a single parent.
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