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Civilian provides secret information to Ukrainian intelligence by application

“If I noticed any equipment or where Russian troops were stationed, I would mark the coordinates and send a message saying I found a Russian unit.”

That’s how 32-year-old Ukrainian Yvan went from being a civilian to being a systematic collaborator with Ukraine’s government intelligence. He asked for the CNN not reveal his last name to be safe.

He says he started providing secret information to Ukraine’s security services using a Ukrainian app called DIA. “I understand all the risks and the danger. But he had no choice. If we don’t do it, who will?”

Like many fighters in Ukraine, Yvan never imagined he would become a soldier. “Unfortunately, on February 24, Russia for some reason decided to change everything. Since then, my life has changed a lot, leading me to become a military man.”

CNN will tell Yvan’s story and many other impressive accounts in the special documentary “The Will to Win – Ukraine 1 Year Later”.

Produced by CNN Internacional and presented by journalist and CNN international correspondent Clarissa Ward, the program will be shown on CNN Brasil this Saturday, the 4th, at 10:45 pm. The broadcast will be on channel 577 on pay-TV operators, on the open signal in kU band, on Youtube and on Prime Video.

Clarissa Ward also talks to a Ukrainian billionaire who used his fortune to finance volunteer soldiers in the war against Russia.

“I am an entrepreneur. And this is my new company, but it wasn’t created to make a profit. It was created to kill the enemy,” says Vsevolod Kozhemyako.

The documentary also shows an emotional interview with the survivor of an attack on a residential building, who lost her parents in the explosion and, shortly afterwards, would also lose her boyfriend, who was fighting against Russian troops.

Nastya Shvets, 24, tells CNN that her boyfriend was the man she was going to marry and start a family with. “He was a real man who could do anything, he was ready to take a star from the sky just to make you smile.”

Dnipro, where the young woman lives, was considered a relatively safe part of Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion. Until the day the city was ripped out of its daily routine. “My mother’s last words were ‘Nastya, go rest, you have to work,’” she says with emotion.

Today, the building where she lived is a jumble of concrete and twisted iron.

Journalist Clarissa Ward also meets a couple of paramedics that she had interviewed months before during the rescue of an injured person and talks about expectations for the future.

(With information from Clarissa Ward and Aline Sgarbi of CNN)

Source: CNN Brasil

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