We Followed a Foreign Fighter on His Way to Join the War in Ukraine

In the dead of night outside the Polish town of Przemyśl, an ex-British soldier named Luke hopped into a taxi after flying from Birmingham, England, earlier in the day, and made his way to a nearby border checkpoint with one goal in mind: joining the Ukrainian war effort.

“It’s important that we remember the war might be in Ukraine, but tomorrow it might be in Western Europe,” he said to VICE World News as the cab sped to the border, driven by a Ukrainian national who’d been helping fighters to...