Ukraine war: The Brits who travelled to fight Russia

He was just an 18-year-old student when Russia invaded Ukraine but within weeks, Ben Atkin had crossed the border into Ukraine with an intention to fight and an acceptance he might not come back. (Subscribe: ) As the youngest known Briton to travel to Ukraine to join the war, it might not come as a surprise that what he found there shocked him. But even for a 30-year-old former Royal Naval engineer like Curtis, the Foreign Legion was not what he expected.