This Ukrainian Luger’s Handwritten Note To Her Olympic Teammate Is Going Viral

Today, Heraskevych shared a graphic listing the names, sports, and ages of the specific people whose images appear on the helmet on Instagram, including both civilians and soldiers.

The graphics share the names of athletes as young as 9 years old, like judoka Viktoria Ivashko, who was killed in 2022, all the way up to 34-year-old Invictus Games coach Taras Shpuk and cycler Andriy Kutsenko, both killed in action.

President Zelenskyy even posted about the helmet on X, saying, “I thank the flag bearer of our national team at the Winter Olympics, Vladyslav Heraskevych, for reminding the world of the price of our struggle.”