https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm29z3e5117o
We can’t say why we’re here, it’s top secret!”
I’d never asked what the drunk British man in strange military fatigues was doing in a Ukrainian cafe, but he was keen to tell me regardless.
It was the summer of 2022, and dotted across Kyiv’s main Khreshchatyk Street were similar types who all claimed they were joining Ukraine’s war effort against Russia.
“War attracts all sorts,” I thought.
We now know they included Ryan Routh, the suspect in an apparent attempted assassination of Donald Trump in the US on Sunday.
Routh “was an omnipresent dude” in the Ukrainian capital, remarks Chris Lutz, an aid worker who met him several times.........