The story of Bohdan Levus: photo artist, drone commander, and total badass
Some people manage to live three full lives before turning 25. Bohdan Levus developed film in instant coffee, lectured the ICRC on uselessness, and became an Azov drone commander.
He was the kind of guy who couldn't just do anything half-way. When he got into photography, he didn't just take phone pictures — he built 3D-printed vintage cameras, experimented with cyanotypes, and developed film in instant coffee and tea.
When the ICRC dropped the ball on Azovstal prisoners, he didn't just post angry tweets. He printed flyers, stuck them on official vehicles in Kyiv, and told their official straight to his face that they were useless bureaucrats. Then he wrote a university thesis on AI for drones, deliberately skipped officer exams so he could serve on the front line directly, and joined Azov as a UAV operator.
He chose the callsign 'Kuloma' — the Erzya word for death — honoring his partial minority roots. Within just a few missions, he was leading his own drone crew, mentoring recruits, and writing front-line poetry in dugouts between combat sorties.
He died on Easter Sunday, right in the middle of another fake Russian 'ceasefire'.
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