HORBIVTSI, Ukraine -- Two tiny white figures can be seen sprinting across a grainy black-and-white screen.

Moments later, a third figure approaches from the opposite direction and a voice is heard challenging them through the drone operators headphones. The Ukrainian border guard has prevented anillegal crossinginto Romania.

In recent interviews with members of a border unit and a man who successfully fled the country, Current Time has pieced together a picture of howUkraines mobilization crisishas fueled a criminal business on its western frontiers.

Border guards said men seeking to avoid military service pay up to the equivalent of $15,000 to smuggling gangs who hire local children to guide them and that people are captured almost every day.