Russian journalist Elena Kostyuchenko went to Ukraine to cover Putin's invasion for the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, but stayed after Putin closed it down. Then she learned that there was an order out to kill her.

She got sick, with an unidentifiable illness, and doctors eventually concluded she had been poisoned by Putinite agents.

As her writing describes, it is not just a few heroes that Putin tries to crush. It is also hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians that the Putin forces have conquered, then shot, kidnapped, brainwashed or tortured.