Like a lot of foreigners eager to fight the Russians, Paul Hughes arrived in Ukraine expecting to be handed a gun and taken straight to the front line.
And, like many would-be combatants, he had decided to come to Ukraine on a bit of a whim. Mr. Hughes, 57, is an anti-poverty activist from Calgary who spent some time with the Princess Patricia Light Infantry years ago. He felt compelled to join the struggle in Ukraine after the Russian army invaded last month, even though all he knew about the country was that it contained a city called Kyiv.
