Guillaume Ptak

When Ryan Routh came to Ukraine he told me every adult civilian in the world should be picking up weapons to fight for good vs. evil.

As the war reaches its second anniversary, the Ukrainian army has been forced to mobilize soldiers in their fifties and sixties to man the trenches along the frontline.

Ukrainians hunkered down in Bakhmut are watching drone footage in horror as Wagner’s band of murderers and prison rapists keep on marching into battle for the besieged city.

Some collaborated with the invaders out of greed, others for ideological conviction. All now face retribution as the Russian army flees.

The Daily Beast was one of the first outlets inside Irpin on the outskirts of Kyiv after Russian forces were driven out of the suburb. What we saw was shocking.