Sky News' Diana Magnay discovers what compromises Ukrainian refugees in the Russian city of Belgorod, most of whom have pro-Russian sympathies, have to make and the affect this has on generational lines.
"They say that the taxi drivers who were taking people to the Russian border are killed. And many people who were cooperating with the Russians, went to work for the administration, as teachers, in gas or electricity services, were all sent to jail."
"My own daughter could hand me over to the SBU ," says Olga , who was a teacher in the Kharkiv region and, like Mr Bakalo, is keenly nostalgic for soviet times. Ukrainian intelligence has good reason to be worried. In a shopping centre in Belgorod we are introduced to one young man who left Kharkiv and is now working for Russia on defence matters. Both he and Mr Bakalo are on an infamous but unofficial Ukrainian hit list, Myrotvorets, which names people considered enemies of the Ukrainian state.'A person cannot blame himself for his own problems'
Unlike him, there are tens of thousands of other Ukrainians who fled to Russia because they had no other choice. Shifting frontlines are hard to cross. Many have moved on through Russia and into Europe, keen to spend as little time as possible inside the country that is bombing theirs. Others are trying to make peace with their new reality.
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