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.