Back home in Ukraine, gently-spoken Mykola was a florist and gardener who loved his tulips and petunias and had plans to marry his girlfriend of six years.
It is hard to imagine him pointing a rifle at a Russian enemy, but the 31-year-old will do anything to “be victorious”.
Artem, a 32-year-old specialist jeweller, has left his partner and six-year-old son at home near the Russian border.
