Georges K. does not look like a special man.
With a round, smiling face, he looks more like the police cadet he was until recently than a soldier.
“Gora”, as he is nicknamed, was preparing, at the age of 23, for the quiet, somewhat boring life of a civil servant in Mariupol, this Ukrainian port planted on the Sea of Azov.
The Russians derailed that trajectory, launching him on an odyssey like only wars can.
From front to front.
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"On February 24, when they attacked, I was immediately put on alert."
Equipped with a bulletproof vest and a Kalashnikov, he is sent to a checkpoint
“to prevent spies from returning to town”
.
The position is exposed and the situation in his hometown is deteriorating very quickly.
Moscow's troops, which had left Crimea and Russia, progressed very quickly and quickly besieged the port.
“At first they only bombed with rockets.
Then, as they got closer, they hit with artillery and then...
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