Daniel Alan Kennedy

Global Voices Online

Daniel Alan Kennedy is a contributor to Global Voices Online.

Originally from Dublin, Dan is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin and University College London with an interest in the politics, history and culture of Russia and the former Soviet Union. He currently resides in London.


Soldiers from the Ukrainian self-defence battalion "Azov" sit at a checkpoint in the southern coastal town of Mariupol on September 8, 2014.

Live from the frontlines of Ukraine, it’s an army officer on Twitter

Conflict

Sergei Misyura is just your average gadget nerd with a blog and a Twitter account — except he’s also an officer in the Ukrainian Army. And when his unit went into battle in eastern Ukraine this summer, he took his popular Twitter feed with him, posting an on-the-ground view of the battle.