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They grew up under the same sky.
Now they met through a drone loudspeaker — on opposite sides of the war.
A soldier of Ukraine’s 158th Separate Mechanised Brigade, call sign “Volt,” was interrogating a captured Russian serviceman.
And then he realised.
“This is a bit of a shock for me. I met my fellow countryman. A young guy,” Volt says.
The prisoner is Volodymyr Bashmakov, originally from Zaporizhzhia region, Kamyanka-Dniprovska district, village of Velyke Znamia — temporarily occupied territory.
He wasn’t born in Russia.
He didn’t move there.
He was mobilised into the Russian army’s 810th brigade — from occupied Ukrainian land.
A few days earlier, fighters of the 158th Brigade on the Northern Slobozhanskyi direction used a drone with a loudspeaker to force five Russian soldiers to surrender.
Among them — a neighbour.
According to Bashmakov, when Russian troops entered his town, within an hour they imposed a curfew. People were forbidden to leave their homes. Those who violated it were detained, beaten, thrown into pits.
First occupation.
Then repression.
Then mobilisation.
This is how Moscow wages war.
One defends his country.
The other was forced into an enemy uniform — and sent to fight against his own.
This is the reality of occupation.
When territory is handed over, it is not just land that is lost.
It is people.
People who will be silenced.
People who will be beaten.
People who will be mobilised — and sent against Ukraine.
That is what occupation means.
And that is why Ukraine fights.
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