Georgians In Ukraine - Daphne Wesdorp
Demna, a member of the Georgian Legion, sticks a freshly picked rose next to his handgun. “With over a thousand fighters, the Georgian legion is the largest foreign battalion present in Ukraine,” says the photographer Daphne Wesdorp. “About 70 percent of the battalion fighters are from Georgia. The Georgians have been fighting the Russian state for centuries. Most of them believe Ukraine and Georgia share the same struggle for independence. As Demna said to [me], ‘We won’t stop until the Russian state, in its current form, stops existing’.”