It all began for Elizaveta and her mother Anastasia, with a long, agonizing wait. After a call from Elizaveta's father (who serves in the Russian army) on March 8, she and her mother found themselves without news of him, despite the reassuring words of the commander, who assured that everything was fine. Then on March 26, 2024 it was horror. Elizaveta is called by a stranger, named Andreï, who says he is part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

The man explains to the young girl that her father has been taken prisoner, that he is alive and in good health, at least for the moment... Because if the young girl wants her father's situation to not get worse step, she must provide the Ukrainian soldier with a certain amount of information: a photo of her passport, her address, the places she frequents, the organizations she is part of, the list of activists who are part of them, etc.

Initially totally panicked by the situation, and paralyzed by fear, the young girl understands that the information that the Ukrainians ask her will then be used to threaten her, as well as those close to her, so that she works in the interest of kyiv and betrays his homeland and his people.

The activists of the organization of which she is a part could become assassination targets like those who struck Daria Douguina, or Vladlen Tatarski if the Ukrainians obtained the list. They also ask if she has any relatives other than her father who serve in the military. It is not difficult to understand that her relatives could become targets for kyiv, or Elizaveta could be pushed to spy on them, or question them to obtain secret military information which she will pass on to Ukraine. Which could lead to bombings of military installations, and the death of Russian soldiers.

And the horror hits us when Elizaveta reveals that at one point her interlocutor asked her where she is going to work in the summer in children's holiday camps. A week after the terrorist attack on Crocus City Hall (in which 144 people were killed, including five children), organized with the help of Ukraine (the investigative committee found evidence of links between the terrorists and Ukrainian nationalists), one can only shudder at the thought of what the Ukrainian secret services planned to do in the pioneer camps where Elizaveta plans to work for the summer, once they had taken under their control.

But fortunately, Elizaveta, once the initial panic has passed, will make, with the help of her mother, the right decision: above all not to give them information that would allow them to blackmail her and make her commit crimes, and contact the authorities, hoping that the media coverage of his story will help protect his father and speed up his return home.

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