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One Man Flees Putin’s Draft: An Update

This week, The Daily is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year and checking in on what has happened in the time since they first ran. Kirill, 24, worked at a nonprofit for homeless people in the Moscow region. He does not support the policies of President Vladimir V. Putin and is vehemently against the invasion of Ukraine. After suffering setbacks in the war, Mr. Putin announced a military draft in September. Kirill was among those called up. In September, Sabrina Tavernise spoke to Kirill who was hiding to avoid being served his papers. Since then, Kirill decided to flee Russia to avoid the draft. Today, Sabrina Tavernise checks in with Kirill about what’s happened since he left his country.
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37m
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30 Dec 2022
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This week, The Daily is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year and checking in on what has happened in the time since they first ran.

Kirill, 24, worked at a nonprofit for homeless people in the Moscow region. He does not support the policies of President Vladimir V. Putin and is vehemently against the invasion of Ukraine.

After suffering setbacks in the war, Mr. Putin announced a military draft in September. Kirill was among those called up. In September, Sabrina Tavernise spoke to Kirill who was hiding to avoid being served his papers. Since then, Kirill decided to flee Russia to avoid the draft. Today, Sabrina Tavernise checks in with Kirill about what’s happened since he left his country.

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Okay, tell me your name. You're just your first name because I know the sensitivities, your age and where you live. My name is Kiril. I'm 24 and I live in Moscow, Oblast. So Kiril, going back to the beginning of the war when Putin first ordered the invasion of Ukraine on February 24th, take me back to that moment in your life. What did you think when you saw that? On the 24th, I woke up not very early, kind of like usual. Around 11 o'clock in the morning. My friend in the morning said that war had begun. If I'm being honest with you, I don't actually remember that day very much because I didn't fully understand and comprehend the magnitude of what had happened and how horrible it would all be. I remember that I went home that day and began talking to my parents. I didn't really want to talk about it with my parents because I don't talk about political topics with them. We have very different points of view and I like to avoid those things with them. But I don't like to talk about that. My parents aren't exactly part of that really toxic part of the public that's really, really for this war, that puts Z stickers on the back of their car. They're not those people. It's hard for me to quite describe to you,

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This week, The Daily is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year and checking in on what has happened in the time since they first ran. Kirill, 24, worked at a nonprofit for homeless people in the Moscow region. He does not support the policies of President Vladimir V. Putin and is vehemently against the invasion of Ukraine. After suffering setbacks in the war, Mr. Putin announced a military draft in September. Kirill was among those called up. In September, Sabrina Tavernise spoke to Kirill who was hiding to avoid being served his papers. Since then, Kirill decided to flee Russia to avoid the draft. Today, Sabrina Tavernise checks in with Kirill about what’s happened since he left his country.