"I take off my hat, and my hair comes out in clumps." From infantry to "Grad" / hromadske 

"I take off my hat, and my hair comes out in bunches. I think: "There must be some kind of radiation on the road in Bilogorivka that we are defending," says Oleksandr, a soldier from the "Bureviy" battalion, about his first months in the service near Lysychansk.
During the first months of the war, Alexander guarded military facilities in Kyiv, then served in Chernihiv, and later transferred to the National Guard and went to war. Oleksandr spent 3 months together with his brothers in the infantry in Bilogorivka, in the Luhansk Region. Then, in the east, the boys saw for the first time how the Grad anti-aircraft missile system works.
"We looked and thought: 'These guys are working!'" says Oleksandr.
Since then, together with his brothers, he dreamed of working at Hrad. During the rotation in Kyiv, the military made a home-made "Hail". The first goal for their machine is a mortar calculation of the Russians.
"The enemy does not fully understand what it is working on, because usually the "Hrad" has three projectiles, so they wait for a whole package, and then look for a large BM machine. If you look at it from the sky, our car is an ordinary pickup truck," Oleksandr says.
How homemade "Hrad" works - in hromadske video.
*a few days after our shoot, the guys' car broke down. Now they fundraise for car repair. You can help them here: send.monobank.ua/jar/4LMBPHd6z
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