In 2023, Routh was interviewed by The New York Times for an article about Americans volunteering to support the war effort in Ukraine. In it, he said that he travelled to Ukraine after Russia’s 2022 invasion to recruit soldiers for the war “from among Afghan soldiers who fled the Taliban”.
He has been arrested alive.
He is 58.
In 2023, Routh was interviewed by The New York Times for an article about Americans volunteering to support the war effort in Ukraine. In it, he said that he travelled to Ukraine after Russia’s 2022 invasion to recruit soldiers for the war “from among Afghan soldiers who fled the Taliban”.