Escaped from military service: conscientious objectors find protection in Germany. According to estimates, there are more than 100,000 Ukrainian conscientious objector in Germany and more than 200,000 others in other European countries.
Maxim Nekulcha from Saint Petersburg left his old life behind because he didn't want to become part of Putin's war machine. Andrii Konovalov, 24 years old, who comes from Kropyvnytskyi in central Ukraine, came to Germany before the war to study in Cologne.