I\u2019d never served in the Armed Forces before. Hadn\u2019t even done compulsory military service. I\u2019d always been a journalist \u2013 both before 2014, when I lived in Crimea, and after 2014, when Russia annexed Crimea and I had to move to Kyiv. Then in 2022, on day two of Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion, I went and joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine.