Boxer Usik was convicted of insufficient demonstration of love for Ukraine

Kyiv, November 18 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Ryabov) – Boxer Alexander Usik has recently not clearly demonstrated political support for Ukraine in the ring, said the head coach of the Ukrainian national boxing team Dmitry Sosnovsky.

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“Many athletes publicly expressed their position regarding Russia’s annexation of our Crimea and the war in the east, but most of our top boxers remained in the shadows. For example, Sasha Usik has recently declared that he is “out of politics” and has not spoken out in support of Ukraine and Vasya Lomachenko. This is wrong,” he said in an interview with the Den newspaper.

It is noteworthy that back in May, boxer Alexander Usik said that Crimea is Ukraine, he remains to live in Simferopol and is not going to receive a Russian passport.

“I’m staying in Crimea. I am Ukrainian, and Crimea is Ukraine, so I don’t see the need to move... I have a Crimean registration, my family lives there, my home is there... I have a normal passport, I’m not going to change it... It doesn’t matter what language I speak, the main thing is “What a heart I have, and it’s Ukrainian,” Usik said then in an interview with Novoye Vremya magazine.