How the Kremlin tried to conscript me for its war, even though it murdered my father | Anatoly Litvinenko

No surprise Russia's military wants me for cannon fodder but why did they think I'd be home when they called?

A round mid-October, almost a month after Vladimir Putin called for the partial mobilisation of Russian citizens to fight the war in Ukraine, there was a knock at the door of the Moscow flat that is registered as my official residence in the country.

The family friends who reside there opened the door and were greeted by two officers from the Russian military administration, who asked them whether I was at home. They said I had not been home in more than 20 years.

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