🇺🇦 PAVLO “ARTIST” HOLCHENKO REFUSED TO BREAK
Doctors gave Pavlo Holchenko, call sign “Artist,” a 96% chance of dying after an aortic rupture on the front. He survived. Seven wounds in three years of war, and as he says: “We had plenty of concussions, but we don't count those as wounds.”
A former miner at the Zasiadko mine, he has been fighting since February 2022. Near Lysychansk, he applied his own tourniquet and crawled back to a trench. Near Zahryzove, his assault group captured 15 Russian soldiers. Later, a kamikaze drone hit his buggy, leaving him with an artificial aorta from his neck to his heart.
He turned down becoming an officer because he believes he is more useful as a sergeant and reconnaissance team leader.
“What keeps me going is that I can still teach and train more people. And I want to live long enough to see robots fully take over the fighting.”
Ukraine’s resilience is not abstract. It has names, scars and people who keep standing when the odds say they should not.
@Inclutus Absolut! Hab damals jeden Tag darauf gewartet, dass ein weiterer Teil erscheint und mich penibel mit der Thematik beschäftigt. Das hat sich bis heute nicht geändert!