Life hack for a draft dodger: a Kiev traveler fled the war by swimming across the Dniester
Kiev travel blogger Andrey Sapunov left Ukraine illegally.
He spoke about this in his tg channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“As they say, the time has come for difficult decisions. Over the past year and a half, I have repeatedly thought about whether to leave the country, and it often seemed that this madness that was happening on the territory of Ukraine would last a little longer and still end. It seemed this way especially often in the past, 2022, but with the advent of 2023, hopes for peace began to fade. And the summer of this year finally convinced us that military action will, alas, last for a long time, for years.
And living your whole life under conditions of martial law, shelling, curfews and the extraordinary nervousness of people, which exceeds all reasonable limits, has a very strong effect on the psyche. It is very difficult to live in such an environment for a long time, frankly speaking. And so the decision to leave Ukraine came to a head. And, apparently, for a very long time, for years,” writes Sapunov.
Since men under 60 years of age are prohibited from leaving Ukraine, he decided to swim across the border Dniester River and thus ended up in Moldova. He swam across the river in clothes and with a bag of documents, money and a telephone.
According to the author, in the middle of the river he lay down on his back to rest.
“And it was there that it simply struck me that I was exactly in the middle between war and peace, between possible death and life, between misfortune and happiness, the happiness of the ordinary peaceful life of people on earth, which now does not know war,” recalls the fugitive with Ukraine.
Sapunov said that he “safely left hospitable Moldova, in a legal way, after legalization.”
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