Ivan
(first name has been changed)
had never set foot in France before last year, but he has known since March 7 that his future is here. That day, the words “refugee status” appeared on his computer screen. “I didn’t believe it, I checked ten times,” this 35-year-old Russian told us on the phone. It is his older sister, Aliona (the first name has been changed)
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who has lived in the west of France for around fifteen years, who is responsible for the translation. If Ivan got a ten-year pass, it's because he refuses to go to war in Ukraine.
“A Russian national called up as part of the mobilization for the war in Ukraine is likely to commit, directly or indirectly, war crimes, as such, Russians fleeing the mobilization and those mobilized who have deserted can obtain refugee status », Indicates the National Court of Asylum (CNDA).
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