Almost 10,000 Russian soldiers surrendered to the Ukrainian army through the “I want to live” hotline. This was written by the Kyiv Independent citing the Ukrainian coordination headquarters for the treatment of prisoners of war. The operation was launched in September 2022 by Ukraine’s Main Directorate of Intelligence, and the 24-hour hotline “allows Russians to voluntarily surrender themselves or their units to the Ukrainian army. Russian military personnel are maintained in accordance with the Geneva Conventions.”
In addition to the hotline, the newspaper writes, there is also a chatbot and a Russian-language website run by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense with information about the program. According to the report, “14 million people have visited the site since it launched.” Most of them are families of soldiers who have returned to Russia, despite the Russian government blocking the site in mid-October. In December 2022, the representative of the Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense, Andriy Yusov, said that “the hotline received a total of 1.7 million calls, with more than 100 people calling per day”.
Source: IL Tempo
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