I Want to Live (hotline)
I Want to Live (; ) is a hotline for receiving appeals from Russian servicemen in Ukraine. Operated by the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine, the service is designed to help Russian servicemen who do not want to participate in the Russian invasion of Ukraine to safely surrender to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The project guarantees the detention of surrendering military personnel in accordance with the Geneva Conventions. Process
According to the official website of the project, there are several methods by which a Russian serviceman can submit an appeal and surrender. These include calling the round-the-clock hotline, or following instructions from a chatbot on the Telegram channel of the project. Since shortly after the launch of the project, Russian state bodies blocked access to it from the territories controlled by the Russian Federation. For those who have surrendered, Ukrainians offer the opportunity to take part in a prisoner exchange organized between the governments of Russia and Ukraine, or to remain temporarily in detention with the possibility of staying in Ukraine or emigrating later. History
On September 18, the coordination headquarters for the treatment of prisoners of war, as a continuation of the project designed to encourage the surrender of Russian personnel, launched a special state project with a 24-hour hotline for receiving appeals from the Russian military and their families called "I want to Live." On October 5, 2022, it became known that with the help of this project, the first Russian serviceman who were mobilized immediately after the announced partial mobilization in Russia surrendered to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. During the first month of the project, more than three thousand calls from Russian military personnel were processed. By December 2022, a spokesperson for the program said it had processed over 4,300 direct requests for information on how to surrender. On 4 May 2023, the hotline's spokesperson Vitaliy Matvienko stated that it received requests to surrender from 3200 Russian soldiers in April 2023, representing a 10% increase over March 2023. He added that the hotline had received a total of 16,000 requests to surrender since its inception. Its website had been accessed over 36 million times, 32 million visits of which were made from the territory of the Russian Federation. See also

 Look for Your Own
 Treatment of prisoners of war in the Russian invasion of Ukraine § Russian prisoners of war

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Russian invasion of Ukraine
Telephone numbers in Ukraine
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Reactions to the Russian invasion of Ukraine
2022 establishments in Ukraine