Many Russians who’ve escaped Vladimir Putin’s hellspiral are now banding together to fight his brutality from abroad.
Emil Filtenborg is a Danish freelance journalist currently living in Kyiv, Ukraine since May 2019. He works in the Post-Soviet space and has covered the 2020 Belarus Protests as well as the ongoing war between Azerbaijan and Armenia.
The White House drops the euphemisms as Vladimir Putin gets the green light to deploy troops abroad, fueling fears that Moscow is set on expanding its incursion into Ukraine.
With the Russian invasion threat at a boiling point, Ukrainians living near the frontlines must now grapple with a life-or-death question: “What do we do?”
The president’s first trip abroad—culminating in a showdown with Putin—is being followed insatiably in Ukraine, where they think their independence as a nation is up for grabs.
Under the assault of Azerbaijani artillery, Martin Ghulyan digs graves for Armenian soldiers. Every day, he hopes that his son on the frontlines will not end up in one of them.
Azerbaijan’s Turkish and Israeli drones are wiping out tanks, artillery, and soldiers as the Armenians lose ground in the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.