On a muffled phone line to Moscow, a member of the Russian armed forces deployed to Ukraine can be heard reassuring his family that he is “alive and well”.
But in this case, the soldier is not Russian, he is Derek Huffman, an Arizonan welder and father of six.
Huffman left the US for Russia last year with his wife DeAnna and three of their children in a bid to escape a western society they saw as going “downhill”, according to videos they uploaded to their YouTube channel and interviews they gave to Russian channels.
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