🕯️🏴Olexander “Vampire” — an anti-fascist, a fighter and a comrade — has been killed at the frontline.
This is a painful loss for his friends, comrades, and everyone who knew him or crossed paths with him in the shared struggle.

Below, we share a few memories of the kind of person he was, his life’s journey and how he will be remembered.

“Zhulik”: 
I got to know Sasha a bit better when I was in the movement myself. It just so happened that he was friends with one of my very close friends. He was training to be a paramedic, and I think that also said a lot about him. Despite his difficult character, he always wanted the best for people, wanted to help them…

Then he went to Crimea, and our contact was cut off for a while, but when full-scale war broke out, he was active there in Crimea too — he hated the empire and wanted it to come to an end!

I remember that Sasha was always a very idealistic person, looking at the world, like all of us, through the prism of defiance and anarchism. He always believed that all people are equal and that there is no division. He was very quick to spring into action, so I wasn’t particularly surprised that he had returned to Ukraine to fight the occupiers. Although he loved the sea dearly and had a dream of living there, relaxing and, most importantly, fighting!

We will avenge you, Sasha; we will turn your ideas into reality, we will destroy the russian regime, and all people will finally be equal. There will be no gods, no masters, no executioner. 

Rest in peace, Vampire; we will bleed them out in your honour!

Olexander “Vampire” was a man who spent his entire short life fighting against nazism and fascism in all their forms.

Almost every time we met, it was accompanied by anti-establishment chaos — conversations, arguments, plans, and anger at a world built on oppression and lies. He was one of the few people who was completely devoted to his ideas, and this devotion was evident in every aspect of his life.

Despite his complex nature, Olexander was a truly kind-hearted man. He always came to the rescue and helped in any way he could, expecting nothing in return.

With the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Olexander refused to accept imperialist encroachments and joined the partisan resistance [in Crimea]. As a result, he was forced to flee the peninsula.
He returned to Ukraine and, without a second thought, immediately enlisted. He wasn’t afraid of losing everything and wasn’t afraid of the fight, because all he needed was his beliefs.

He was an anarchist, anti-authoritarian fighter, poet and a very good friend. We will miss you. The memory of you will live on forever in our hearts.

From Olexander’s friends.
On the shield 🛡️