A prisoner from the Armed Forces of Ukraine spoke about the help of relatives in escaping from the exercises to Ukrainian soldiers

Relatives of those mobilized into the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) helped them escape from the exercises. Nikolai Rozbitsky, a rifleman of the 119th separate Air Defense Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who surrendered to the Russian Armed Forces in the Sumy direction, told about this on April 19.

"[The mobilized] took the phone, as if to call home, and there they made arrangements with friends or relatives, made an appointment. <...> The most important thing was to get to the road, and then you called, and someone would already arrive by car and take you out," Rozbitsky told TASS.

According to him, employees of the territorial recruitment center (TCC, an analogue of the military enlistment office) seized phones from the mobilized, but relatives handed them over again in parcels.

Rozbitsky reported on April 17 that employees of the Shopping mall were catching men for mobilization in Ukraine using ambulances.

On April 7, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that Ruslan Levchuk, a Ukrainian soldier from the 53rd reconnaissance battalion, who was captured by units of the North group of forces, spoke about forced mobilization and asked not to be included in the exchange lists in order not to fight for the regime of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky again.