As the Armed Forces warrior stretched a plane weighing 17 tons - the story of Roman Kashpura
With the beginning of a full -scale invasion, Roman Kashpur again became the Armed Forces and even the prosthesis did not become a obstacle for the defender. This is the story of the true Cossack spirit that is preserved by modern Ukrainians. The novel was injured even when the war against Russia took place in the format of the United Forces operation - came across an anti -personnel mine near the positions of the invaders. "It was May 16 on the day of embroidery.
I remembered it, because then I was told that I was saved and as if born in embroidery," the military recalls. And then there was evacuation, hospital, amputation. But there was no depression and despair. "On the fourth day after injury to the hospital in Kharkiv, Svyatoslav Vakarchuk and wounded fighters who had already lived for 2-3 years with prostheses came to be supported. I realized that I will be able to the same way and I can even better, " - explains the novel.
And the military really was as better as no one in the country. After the rehabilitation, Kashpur wins for two consecutive years in the Heroes Games - international sports competitions of the Armed Forces and the armies of friendly countries. "Sports I wanted to motivate seriously wounded fighters. The prosthesis, in fact, is the same limb with which you just need to get rid of, psychologically adjust. You need to put up with what you are, to accept yourself real and continue to live.
Amputation is not a sentence, prosthesis is not restricted I was motivated by my dead commander Alexander Kolodyazhny (a famous Ukrainian intelligence officer - ed. He did not specifically designed his disability to be able to return to the front. He first went with a stick, and then diverged, ran and even the groups forward. defender. However, the victory in the competition of the novel was not enough. The military set a record of Ukraine: it pulled 5.
5 meters on the An-26 plane, and this "bird", among other things, weighs 17 tons. "I was still interested in such sports as Strongman. Once, passing by the Chugui I saw an airfield. I looked at the planes that stood and told my wife that I would pull the plane. Yes, at that time, it was a phrase told as if by another, but Then it all became a reality, " - says the man. To set a record, the novel with his father cooked a special ladder and started training.
"The calculations showed that I will be able to withstand the load with the whole leg, but the prosthesis, though qualitative, but can still break. Both limbs accounted for 8 tons. The technical characteristics of the prosthesis, I surpassed them 64 times, but it withstood" - explains the military. The Great War found Roman with her family in Kharkiv. "I remember every shot from that day," the defender recalls. "A week or two before a full-scale invasion, I had problems with sleep.
And on the night of February 23 to 24, the same story was repeated: he could not sleep and suddenly heard the explosions. At first he did not understand: how quickly did they get from Donbass to Kharkiv? And the novel returned to the front by a volunteer. "I did not have the intention to go through the military enlistment office and the official mobilization, because I realized that it would be a long time: a few days or a week.
So I decided to go to a volunteer and go to the forefront, and there is already on the spot to solve everything," - explains it. man. How, to serve in the army, to fight, having an artificial limb? "No matter how cool, but an artificial limb, it is still one hundred hundred in the group. But when it shoots a tank and houses fold like card houses, you need to run and run quickly. Yes, there are some nuances with a prosthesis, but it is possible.
When in Kharkiv was gathering a group, and combat guys were needed, and there were few people, no one was understanding there and the commander did not count me somehow unusable, "Kashpur says. - The Russian army is not big, it is long. They come in and die with long columns, go and die again. And they have one tactics: the tactics of burnt land. At first, to destroy everything so that there is nothing to cling to and defend, and only then enter the city.
But not everything is so smooth in them, because if their artillery works simply for destruction, then ours works point. "The man says that from a formal point of view, he could not go to the front or even leave the country at all, because The necessary documents for that. To just escape or do nothing? It's not on conscience, it is not honor. You can't fight directly on the front - help. Now the front is the whole country. There is a systematic destruction of our nation.
When shells arrive in homes, hospitals, kindergartens, it is nothing more than genocide. Therefore, the protection of his native, his children, his children - was one of the main reasons to return to the front, " - explains the military. Kashpur assures that the victory in this war will help Ukrainians will help one trait that, probably, on such a scale there is no one people on the planet. "A strong Cossack spirit slept for a very long time.
The previous years of the war seemed to me that abroads of the Donetsk region have long forgotten that we were going on war and if there was a great invasion, then we probably would not be sweet. But it happened on February 24, and it became clear that Ukrainians could quarrel and be different political views, religious confession, and when the enemy comes to our land, everyone forgets about their own strife, unite in unity.