He moderated r/Ukraine, shaping how the world sees the war. Now he has to fight in it.

• Mykola Sokalskii, a Ukrainian film producer, is being enlisted to fight against Russia.
• He is also one of the powerful moderators of r/Ukraine — a huge clearinghouse for news of the war.
• The subreddit grew more than tenfold during the war — and gave  Sokalskii a vivid insight into the fight he's joining.

A man who spent two years moderating one of the internet's most influential sources of information on Ukraine is being called up to fight against Russia.

Mykola Sokalskii, a 39-year-old film producer from Kyiv, started live-streaming on Reddit in 2020 after the pandemic began.