Heroes Among Us
5/28/2024
Work brings you back to life – experience of Zaporizhstal employee who returned to work from frontline
Oleksandr Pashchenko stood up to defend Ukraine at the very beginning of the full-scale invasion.For millions of Ukrainians, the first day of the full-scale invasion is forever etched in their memories because of the anxiety, threat, uncertainty, and fear that a major war inevitably brings. For Oleksandr Pashchenko, an employee of Zaporizhstal, this day was the moment when he made an important decision, a brave step, a difficult choice.The Zaporizhstal employee, who before the full-scale invasion worked as an electrician repairing and maintaining electrical equipment in the hot rolling mill, came to the military enlistment office to defend his family and country from the occupiers. The volunteer, alongside his colleagues and comrades-in-arms, performed tasks in the Donetsk sector in the first weeks of the hellish battles."At that time, there was a massive enemy offensive in the Donetsk sector, in Volnovakha, and we, in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, were holding back the ad