I had never heard of the guy until he popped up around some VivaBarnes/The Duran stuff that I happened to catch (I'm not a regular watcher) during the start of the war. I remember being weirded out by the fact that when questioned about how he felt about the conflict, with his being in Ukraine, his reaction was that he was "excited."
You can have a lot of different opinions about the conflict but being excited by the advent of war on your doorstep seemed like a special kind of retarded.
I suppose it's only speculation, but I've heard it speculated that he thought he'd be safer in Kharkiv because he thought it would inevitably fall into Russian hands.
I had never heard of the guy until he popped up around some VivaBarnes/The Duran stuff that I happened to catch (I'm not a regular watcher) during the start of the war. I remember being weirded out by the fact that when questioned about how he felt about the conflict, with his being in Ukraine, his reaction was that he was "excited."
You can have a lot of different opinions about the conflict but being excited by the advent of war on your doorstep seemed like a special kind of retarded.
He was a reporter who was at the center of a global media storm. Ofc he was excited to report on it all.
I remember him dicking around in an empty hotel after everyone evacuated Kiev.
I suppose it's only speculation, but I've heard it speculated that he thought he'd be safer in Kharkiv because he thought it would inevitably fall into Russian hands.
In prison with the other Russian collaborators and loyalists?