Kyiv
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Oleksandr Adamov does not take shelter when Russian missiles and drones approach the critical Ukrainian energy facility where he works. Instead, he puts on a bulletproof vest and helmet and enters a special metal protective capsule, crouching down to fit inside.
The barrel-shaped capsule allows him to keep monitoring the facility’s central control panel, located close to the equipment that Russia is deliberately and regularly targeting, and an opening at the bottom offers an escape route if it gets buried.
“It’s scary, of course,” Adamov told CNN. “But we overcome our fears and tell ourselves that we have to stay because of the equipment, first and foremost,…