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He was lying on the sofa after work, beer in hand, flicking through Netflix. It was the first few weeks of Putin's invasion and he couldn't get the idea of war in Europe out of his head.
His father, Derek, who looks after the family farm, and his mother, Sheena, who runs a catering company, pleaded with him not to do it.During his first month in Ukraine, he helped with international aid efforts - packing food parcels, sending kit to the frontline. Then came the opportunity to join the fight.
There were plenty of surreal moments, like spending his 26th birthday in a trench being attacked by the Russians. Meanwhile, his family were back home waiting anxiously for news.Thankfully, that call never came.For Sheena, it was a"nightmare". She coped by switching off news updates about the war and throwing herself into her work. She's still upset that Douglas didn't message them more often.
Back outside on the farm, Douglas says that even though it was hard, and he lost friends in the fighting, he still cherishes the memory of watching as Ukrainians returned to the villages he'd helped liberate."To just see that, made everything worthwhile," he says.
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