Four months have now passed since the start of the Russian attack on Ukraine.
The consequences of the war can also be felt in Germany.
Some are angry, helpless, afraid.
Others make an unusual decision: »People deal with helplessness very differently.
There were people who took in refugees.
The willingness to help was huge.
And Olli's way was to say: Then I'll go and do something."
In the new episode of SPIEGEL Daily, SPIEGEL foreign reporter Alexandra Rojkov talks about her research and meeting Olli, a 40-year-old father from a village in northern Germany.
Immediately after the outbreak of war, Olli makes the decision to go to war.
He wants to support the Ukrainian army, but he did nothing more than basic military service, and that was many years ago.
In the podcast, hear how far Olli gets on his way to the front and what drives him.
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