“There's a real difference in being watched for nine months hiding in a hole, being scared to come up above ground to smoke… constant buzzing as you know that there's someone hunting right outside your trench for any sign of movement, and you're scared to even come out at night because you can't see anything, but they could see you. That constant feeling of being watched. … It's a totally different psychological dilemma versus somebody who had a traumatic experience with a firefight in Kandahar.”

…because the mainstream press, to be quite frank, have a problem with the liability that comes with sending their journalists out to the front line as often as I think there should be footage coming from the front line. So there needs to be more independent press on the front. I really believe that.

…we had in Afghanistan, we had reporters in bed with us. Ah, you know, they had pretty hot meals and we kind of joked around with them at night, but like they weren't really in that much danger. We made sure they didn't go on certain patrols and all that. But this is an entirely different beast.

here. And in fairness to the good journalists that are out there at these major organizations, because there are plenty of solid ones, most of the time, in my understanding, is it's not their individual call. It's, we'll call it the Associated Press or the Washington Post. It says, absolutely not.…

Yeah, nobody should have ever let me onto the front line at the start of the war. That was insane that they did that. You know, some streamer comes over here, like, I want to meet a war journalist. And, you know, they said, okay. And it worked out five years later and making full-fledged films. I…

What about risk tolerance? How much of that are you able to determine? I mean, you mentioned a second ago that it's practically impossible for foreign journalists to get into Kostantinivka. I'm sure there's been a number of places where at some point there's a line drawn and foreign press isn't…