Bohdan considers himself fortunate: after a series of interviews, last month he secured a position as a signals officer with the acclaimed Ukrainian 3rd Separate Assault Brigade. It is a role that will allow the logistics manager from Kyiv to largely avoid the trenches where hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers perish each week.
Before he was accepted he also had the opportunity to meet his future commanders, who he said gave him “a good feeling” about signing up for the war with Russia – a decision he had dreaded for months. “If I have to fight, at least I know I will be taken care of,” he told the Guardian in a cafe in Kyiv, requesting his last name be withheld.
