Vladyslav Heraskevych, who was nation's flag bearer at the opening ceremony last week, trained in the evocative helmet on Monday, disclosing that 'some of them were my friends'.
Vladyslav was given 30 minutes to pack up his belongings before he was forcefully enrolled into a military camp that aimed to strip him of his Ukrainian identity.
Earlier this year, a soldier known only as Vladyslav was taken prisoner along with seven others. Their Russian captors sliced off their genitals, gouged out their eyes and cut off their ears, noses a…