It’s March 2022. Russian forces have besieged the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, shelling it from warships in the Azov Sea. Kremlin troops are still dangerously close to the capital Kyiv, while the first horrific accounts of mass killings are starting to emerge from Bucha. As the war unfolded around him, Hobbit arrived in Ukraine. “In the beginning, it was all new to me, and I was very nervous. And I was sure after one or two months there wouldn’t be a government left.” Hobbit – who only uses his callsign not his real name for operational security reasons – is one of the estimated hundred Finns, …