One couple buried their phones in the garden to keep them from being seized by the Russian invaders.
A Ukrainian woman speaks on a mobile phone as she sits in a car with her family after they managed to flee from the Russian-occupied territory of Kherson, on November 5, 2022, in Zaporizhzhia. Bulent Kilic/ AFP
The accounts of life under occupation by those who managed to escape tell a tale of near-total paranoia and subjugation to the whims of soldiers and Kremlin appointees. But the pattern they paint does not easily fit with the version Kremlin media portray for their domestic audience.The Russian-held plant—Europe's largest—is near the scene of constant shelling and only has enough power to keep its six shut reactors from melting down.'No one feels safe'
"We would bury our phones. Everyone would do that. The ones that didn't bury theirs in time– all of them lost theirs." But those who escaped in the opposite direction said soldiers were ready to drive people up to Ukrainian positions—for a price.
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