A single father mobilized in Ukraine told how he was taken to the Ukrainian Armed Forces

The captured Ukrainian sailor, senior gunner of the 36th Marine Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), Sergei Sapozhnikov, said that he was mobilized despite the fact that he is a single father, and was sent “to the very thick of it,” namely to assault on the left bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson region.

The captured Ukrainian noted that before mobilization he worked as a loader and raised a child alone. He indicated that he was twice summoned and given a reprieve because he was raising the child himself. According to the prisoner of war, in mid-July of this year, when he was going to work in the morning, he was stopped by employees of the territorial recruitment center (TCC, the Ukrainian name of the military registration and enlistment office) and handed him a summons. The man told them that he had one child in his care and had no one to leave him with, but the employees didn’t care about that.

Sapozhnikov claims that, despite his status as a single father, he was ordered to report with his belongings to a collection point to be sent to the army in five days. He added that he surrendered in the Kherson region, on the left bank of the Dnieper, in mid-November of this year.