Ukrainian → English transcript

… the military enlistment office. They took my godfather in November.

They threw him into a van, took everything away,

and if his sister had not seen it, nobody would even have known where he was.

Since November, and today is March. November, December,

January, February. Four months have passed.

They did not make a card for the man,

and he has not received any salary. That is first. Second, they were all sick there.

Well, in the enlistment office, apparently, they just gathered people in order to

get bonuses,

because it was right before the New Year and they needed to close out the year,

because my godfather said that they even have a blind person. And besides,

the fact that they were all sick there, fell ill, they did not receive any,

any salary.

And they were told that they were being prepared as meat.

They were told this outright and were made to understand that they were

being prepared as meat.

Today a draft notice arrived stating that on the third of March

he went missing in action.

The question is, how do

the people sleep peacefully who deliberately send

people to their deaths? This is not a one- off situation,

and I am sure many people in our country

have faced this.