KYIV — Yurii Ivaskevych’s navy name signal is Pavarotti, a nod to his former life as a barrel-chested opera singer in east Ukraine — a life he thought he left behind when he enlisted the morning Russia invaded.
However after Ivaskevych, 51, misplaced a leg when his unit got here beneath shelling, he was recruited by one other department of Ukraine’s navy: the Cultural Forces.
