Representatives of the Main Intelligence Directorate note that the Russian military was particularly active in calling the hotline after the liberation of Kherson.
In fact, 220 Russian soldiers surrendered as prisoners over a year and a half as part of the project i want to live. This was announced by the official representative of the project, an employee of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Vitaly Matvienko in a comment to the British newspaper Financial Times.
According to him, almost a thousand Russian soldiers are ready to surrender.
According to Matvienko, the Russian military was particularly active in calling the hotline in November 2022 after the liberation of Kherson.
The second outbreak of interest, according to him, came in the spring of 2023, when Ukraine was preparing for a summer counter-offensive.
In total, the project’s direct line received more than 26 thousand calls and text messages during its existence, and the site was visited 48 million times, of which 46 were from Russia.
This site is blocked in Russia, but can be accessed with a VPN.
GUR did the project i want to live in September 2022, three days before the partial mobilization in Russia was announced.
We previously wrote that about 24,000 Russians expressed a desire to surrender thanks to the Ukrainian project. i want to live
Source: korrespondent
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