Arkadi has grappled with the horrors of war before. For nearly two years he fought beneath the hot sun of Afghanistan, where tens of thousands of Soviets died in a Cold War conflict many Russians neither understand or cared about.
Now, more than 30 years on, Arkadi - or ‘Archie’ as he’s known - finds himself once again caught in the crosshairs. Except, this time, his allegiances have switched. A proud resident of Kyiv, Archie is preparing to resist his fellow Russians and doing what he can to support a city being pummelled by Vladimir Putin’s war machine.
