the Guardian Olexsandr worked in IT for a logistics company when Putin invaded and now he blows up Russian tanks. But he has nothing but scorn for the way profiteers are hampering his own side’s war effort
By Daniel Boffey in Zaporizhzhia oblast
Before Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Olexsandr, 32, had been an IT guy at a logistics company. “I think you know it because we have a big warehouse in England. I haven’t been.”
Today, Olexsandr’s reputation is not built on his skills in fixing software glitches for a multinational company, but on a kill tally that makes him perhaps Ukraine’s deadliest kamikaze drone pilot on the frontline. “I haven’t met anyone who has destroyed more,” he reluctantly admits.
Since last May, Olexsandr, who has not enlisted in the army but floats around the frontline offering his deadly thumbs to brigades in need, has acted as a one-man wrecking ball through the Russian army.
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