Read previewA man who spent two years moderating one of the internet's most influential sources of information on Ukraine is being called up to fight against Russia.
Mykola Sokalskii, a 39-year-old film producer from Kyiv, started live-streaming on Reddit in 2020 after the pandemic began.
Speaking to Business Insider, Sokalskii said the subreddit "skyrocketed" in popularity on Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022, swelling from 80,000 members to 906,000.
"But that's just the way things are, and that's also the way you can portray war.
Ukraine's parliament also passed a bill earlier this month that would allow the country's military to recruit prisoners to fight .
Persons:
—, Mykola Sokalskii, Sokalskii, Sokalskii —, that's, Skolskii, he'd, Zelenskyy, Narciso Contreras
Organizations:
Service, Russia, Business, New York Times, 42th Brigade, Anadolu, Getty
Locations:
Ukraine, Kyiv, Russia, Germany, Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast