KYIV — Yurii Ivaskevych’s army name signal is Pavarotti, a nod to his former age as a barrel-chested opera singer in east Ukraine — a age he idea he left in the back of when he enlisted the morning Russia invaded.
However next Ivaskevych, 51, misplaced a leg when his unit got here underneath shelling, he was once recruited by means of some other segment of Ukraine’s army: the Cultural Forces.