How a 24-year-old ultra saved his crew by driving straight into the fire
We often talk about heroes as if they were born in armor, but Adams was just a regular guy who loved football and ended up making the ultimate sacrifice.
Before he was Adams of the Azov regiment, he was just Sasha, a kid from Cherkasy who spent his youth in football stands, eventually getting the nickname Kazymyr because of the artist Malevich. He studied cooking, managed a kids' camp, and eventually signed up for the military because he felt he had to protect his family and his country.
When the full-scale invasion hit, he had already been serving in Mariupol for two years. He only had 30 seconds a day to call his mom, just to say he was alive and ask if Kyiv was still holding. When he heard the capital stood strong, it gave him and his crew the energy to keep fighting in the middle of a literal hellscape.
On April 3, 2022, his crew drove out of the Azovstal plant and realized another unit had been completely surrounded by Russian forces. Instead of retreating, they made a split-second choice: they drove their armored vehicle directly at the enemy to draw all the fire onto themselves, opening a path for their comrades to escape.
It worked. The surrounded soldiers made it out alive. But Sasha's armored vehicle was hit, and he died in that battle. He was 24 years old.
That kid from the football stands did more in one afternoon than most people will do in a lifetime.
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