Ukrainian police officer George K. nicknamed "Gora" was prepared for a routine life in his government job in the Ukrainian port of Mariupol on the Sea of ​​Azov, but the Russian invasion of his country knocked him off this path and pushed him on an epic journey, in which he crossed Russia to return, as an agent, as a policeman. Watching the enemy's movements as he started.

The French newspaper "Le Figaro" begins the story of this policeman from the Russian attack on his city, Mariupol, and sending him to a checkpoint to "prevent spies from entering the city", before the situation deteriorates further and he is transferred to a squad that helps firefighters bury the dead and evacuate the victims.

Moscow's forces advanced very quickly - as the newspaper's envoy Tangi Bertimi says - and surrounded the port of Mariupol. At night, Gora would take refuge in the police station in the guard courses on the roof, "in the cold and complete darkness due to the blackout," he says.

Gora planned to join the army in the "Azov" Fighting Regiment, where he served his brother, who no longer had any news of him, but events escalated, his car was destroyed and his father was killed by a shell when he was "looking for something to eat", and when he went to see his mother and grandparents, he found them "terrified", And he began looking for gasoline, "so that he could leave if he had to."

After the city became largely occupied, Gora and his family tried to leave it, but the Russians did not find it difficult to identify him, so he was arrested and transferred with others and interrogated several times, and interrogated by the Russian intelligence services, before they settled in Donetsk, where the conditions are harsher, but Gora learn the lesson;

"You have to be calm and polite and never protest. Above all, you must never speak Ukrainian, not even a word, or you will be beaten."

Gora remained in these buildings for 6 days before he was first granted "prisoner of war status", to be transferred back to Olinivka, the large penal colony in the oblast, where "they beat us with iron rods and batons for 10 minutes with full force, after which we were thrown into a dungeon without light." ...I lost two of my teeth after this welcome party."

There, in prison - as the reporter says - they were offered to join the ranks of the separatist Donetsk state police, but they refused, before a "known pro-Ukrainian" guard came to them, "we were advised to accept because that was the only way to escape."

After acceptance, they returned his passport and phone, which would allow him, through social networks, to organize his trip to Russia, Lithuania and then Ukraine, taking advantage of the administrative chaos in Donetsk.

Ukrainian soldiers after surrendering to the Russians in Mariupol (European)

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Gura was in hiding for 3 days with Ukraine loyalists. A truck driver agreed to take him to the border so that the Russians would take him to the EU border, and he kept crossing the border between Donbass and Russia. Here Gura says, “I decided to play the role of traitor and collaborator, but it seems that the intelligence agent The Russian was interested in my absent brother, he wanted to know if I knew him, so I denied and said that it was just a similarity in names, and that I was going to Moscow, and after 5 hours he let me pass. I think he recruited me to be a collaborator.

"I crossed Russia in two days, and I could see Z-marks everywhere, the signs of the Russian army," Gorra adds.

Gora arrived at Russia's border with Lithuania, where he was immediately handed over to a man from the KGB. "I made a lie, that I would meet my parents in Germany," says Gora. "The agent smiled and stamped my passport."

And Le Figaro concludes that Gora is now free, he arrived in Warsaw and then took the road to Ukraine, and in Dnipro he reported to the police to get his military uniform back, and then he arrived in Sloviansk last June, where he again monitors the movements of the enemy with his helmet and weapon.