I saw directors of private clinics leaving their practices in order to lead medical units in combat brigades on the front line, wedding photographers turning their hand to aerial photoreconnaissance, bartenders becoming artillerymen. We went on to serve in the same battalion. I met two gay men in the queue at the recruitment office. It contained ordinary workers and company directors, parents and their children, schoolteachers, theatre people and new university graduates. I found myself joining a true people’s army. As we say in Ukraine, “If you need to explain, then you needn’t bother explaining.” Then in 2022, on day two of Russia’s full-scale invasion, I went and joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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