491 days in a pipe: Parliament pushes for Kostyantyn Vlasenko to be Hero
The Verkhovna Rada is finally moving to recognize a man who turned a drainage pipe into his own personal fortress for over a year.
Imagine living in a concrete drainage pipe for 491 days. No rotation, no relief, just you, your gear, and the constant threat of drones. That was reality for Kostyantyn Vlasenko on the Kupiansk front. After his comrade died, he held that spot solo, surviving in conditions that sound like a dystopian nightmare.
When he was finally hit and faced the unimaginable, he amputated his own leg to survive. He was eventually pulled out via a one-of-a-kind heavy drone evacuation mission that made headlines last month. Now, the Verkhovna Rada has finally voted to petition Zelenskyy to grant him the title of Hero of Ukraine.
It is wild that it takes a literal medical miracle and a year-long lone-wolf survival story for the bureaucratic machine to actually acknowledge the scale of what is happening on the front line.
Source: Ukrinform
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