It has been a little more than eight months since Ivan Mishchenko swapped his refined black robe and white scarf for camouflage and Kevlar.
As a judge on Ukraine’s supreme court, the full onset of hostilities with Russia also forced him to exchange the sword of justice for an assault rifle.
Judges, he will readily admit to you, don’t usually go to war. But he described the choice facing him and his country as an “existential” one.
“It’s the choice that I had to take,” Mishchenko told CBC News in an interview Monday, on the margins of an international justice conference in Ottawa. “It’s an
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