“Putin strengthened Ukrainian identity and patriotism”. Failing to take up arms, Alexander fights on all fronts and gets involved with organizations supporting soldiers, their families, and those who have lost everything.

Alexander spent part of his childhood and adolescence in Moscow, with his mother married for a second time to a Russian. Returning to live in Ukraine in the 1990s, this resident of Boutcha escaped the massacres in this city which had become a martyr. Twelve hours before Russian troops arrived, he convinced his wife to leave with their 2-year-old daughter.