Border guards patrolling the Danube River, which marks the border between Ukraine and Romania, near Vylkove, southwestern Ukraine. — Photos: Oksana Parafeniuk/The New York Times
DRAFT officers picked up Ivan at a traffic stop and dropped him at a training base.
Three days later, he went absent without leave. Since then, the 42-year-old has been hiding at home in Vylkove, a small town on the Danube in southern Ukraine, rarely venturing outside.
