An anecdote from my book *The War Came to Us: When the Kremlin called Kyiv in the early hours of the full-scale invasion to press it to concede defeat*, it was Dmitry Kozak who rang Yermak’s phone. He told Yermak to convince Zelenskyy to surrender or be prepared to face the full force of Russia’s response.

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