On the very day that russia invaded ukraine, pashali went down to the territorial defence forces office to sign up. The job he'd walked away from was as a presenter on a television channel called dom - which means home in eucranian. Dom soled itself heavily on telling the truth and also broadcastad crimea. As it happened, pachali was from crimea himself. He'd been born in yepatoria, which was a rather beautiful resort and health centre on the black sea coast. But later on, and certainly after the russian annexation of ukraine in 20 14, it was no longer really a healthy place to live.