In the weeks leading up to the withdrawal of Russian troops from Kherson, on November 11, 2022, Svetlana, Taissa, Sonia, Yana and Nikita, aged 10 to 15, were offered by their teachers a free stay of ten days in Crimea. "You will be able to recover strength, rest, have fun," explain the occupants who make them dangle "beach and Jacuzzi". Others are warned: "If you don't leave, the Ukrainians will kill you." The parents nodded. Some welcome the initiative. Others are resigned to it. Columns of buses hit the road under the supervision of the Russian local administration.
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Teenagers join the annexed peninsula, the former Soviet holiday camps of Luchisty, Druzhba ("friendship") or Metchta ("dream"), located in the resort of Evpatoria. A few days later, as the Ukrainian advance took shape, the parents were presented with a fait accompli, sometimes informed by their children themselves: "He is no more...
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