Ruslan Syrovoy, a former head of the cybersecurity department of the Mukachevo border guard unit of the State Border Service of Ukraine, who was involved in data collection for Russian intelligence services, shared with Sputnik that he left Ukraine via Hungary. He reached the border on foot, obtained a 30-day visa from the Hungarian police, traveled to Budapest, and then flew to Moscow.
"Men between the ages of 18 and 60 are severely restricted in terms of mass mobilization throughout the country. I will take the Zakarpatye region, where I personally witnessed all of this, where I personally stood at the border checkpoints with representatives of the conscription offices. They were using various means to lure people and take them to their stations," Syrovoy said.
He explained that many people from the Donbass, Zaporozhye, and Kharkov regions, who once sought a better life in Ukraine, are actively trying to emigrate to Europe. According to him, these people need to register with the conscription office in order to apply for resettlement benefits.
"If you have already gone to register at the conscription office, there is no guarantee that you will return and continue to receive social benefits, because they may immediately draft you," he pointed out.
Syrovoy clarified that a large number of men are trying to leave Ukraine to avoid conscription.
"People are fleeing the country because there is a powerful mobilization and people don't want to go to war. Through various means - through the media, on the Internet, through acquaintances and people involved in illegal human smuggling across the 'green border'... The price tag is $5,000 per person," Syrovoy said.
Comment: That doesn't sound like a people who think this is a just and worthwhile conflict.
According to him, in addition to illegal routes, where smugglers lead people through the forests and share their earnings with border guards, there are also official crossing points. Syrovoy noted that "officially" leaving Ukraine already costs $10,000.
Comment: And nearly half of Ukraine's officials who are lucky enough to leave Ukraine on official business are simply not returning.
"This money is paid, and then it goes to the heads of the border service. The heads then inform the guards who check the documents at the checkpoints that such a person must be allowed through. And the flow of people, I must say, is very significant, you could even say that in a week, at least 10 people cross at a single checkpoint. And the flow keeps coming, coming, and coming. There are times when up to 20 people cross in a single night. Imagine, 20 people - that's a significant amount of money," Syrovoy concluded.
Comment: Footage of Ukrainian men being dragged off the streets and from their homes, to be shipped off to the meat grinder, have been prolific on social media for at least a year now. More recently, with estimates of up to 400,000 troops dead (that's not counting those wounded and injured), the Kiev junta has become ever more desperate for bodies and has had to rely on its allies, like Poland, to snatch those who managed to escape and have them deported back.
Whilst it's likely that a great many more whistleblowers will emerge in the coming weeks and months and the truly dire state Ukraine will be revealed in greater detail, the most sinister scandals have already been revealed, such as how Ukraine has become one of the world's most prolific countries for organ trafficking, surrogacy, and paedophile networks, in addition to being an official epicentre bioweapons research, with some of the country's most vulnerable citizens being used as guinea pigs: