'I turned off Netflix and went to fight': The Scot who went to war in Ukraine As a mother, it was very, very tough. A nightmare. He wanted to go and help, and I totally got all that. But I didn't like this feeling. And I didn't expect it to still be so. raw. Feeling so raw after it. They thought their boy might not return home from the front line in Ukraine. But Douglas did make it back to the family farm in South West Scotland. The helicopters are the worst. And you'll hear the. By this point you're crawling up the wall going, not today, please not today. He had no military training, but still decided he had to go. I was sat here actually drinking a beer, watching Netflix. I made my decision, packed up the stuff and left my job an awful lot. I'm young enough, I can contribute to a better world. He was known as Soap, a video game character, who was now ...