Ukraine war: Hiding from Putin's call-up by living off-grid in a freezing forest - BBC News

Adam Kalinin has been camping in the Russian wilderness since September to avoid fighting in Ukraine.

3 days agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingRelated TopicsRussia-Ukraine warImage source, Adam KalininImage caption, Adam Kalinin has lived in the Russian wilderness for nearly four months to avoid being called up to fight in UkraineBy Ben TobiasBBC NewsWhen Vladimir Putin announced a partial mobilisation of Russian men in September last year, it took Adam Kalinin - not his real name - a week to decide that the best thing he could do was move to the forest.

The IT specialist was against the war from the start, receiving a fine and spending two weeks in detention for sticking a poster saying "No to war" on the wall of his apartment building.

So when Russia said it was calling up 300,000 men to help turn things around in a war it was losing, Kalinin did not want to risk being sent to the front line to kill Ukrainians.

But, unlike hundreds of thousands of others, he did not want to leave the country.

Three things kept him in Russia: friends, financial constraints and an unease about abandoning what he knows.

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