The ex-world champion said that Vasily supports Ukraine in the war with Russia
Vice-president of the Professional Boxing League of Ukraine, ex-world champion Alina Shaternikova said that the former world champion in three weight categories Vasily Lomachenko supports Ukraine in the war with Russia, but does not talk about it publicly.
“I went with our gold Olympic team in 2012 on a tour of Ukraine after the Olympic Games. We traveled across the regions to youth sports schools, to different universities, to institutions where we presented our team, and communicated between our champions and the local public. The most closed one, who didn’t like it very much, is Vasily Lomachenko. It has always been, it is. He has his own social circle, and everything else… He doesn’t feel like he has to be an influencer and broadcast everything he thinks. He is such a. Anyone who wants can condemn him.”
“I talked to him personally. Before he left for the press conference, we stood and waited. We talked about the war. He speaks the same points as me, the same points as you. He says it all like this. But at the same time, he doesn’t just go on a big stage to say it.”
Lomachenko has repeatedly demonstrated his commitment to the UOC-MP on social networks. Serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and public figure Yevgeny Karas, as well as the chief of staff of the Azov regiment Bogdan Krotevich announced the “recruitment” of Lomachenko. Ukrainian boxer Ivan Redkach spoke in support of Vasily.
The boxer has repeatedly published a video interview with Metropolitan Longin of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate on social networks. During his monologues, Longin says that “Ukraine started a war against God, the Church of the Lord and the Ukrainian people.”
In 2023, Lomachenko published a video interview with Metropolitan Luke of Zaporozhye and Melitopol for the Russian BBC service, who stated that Ukrainians deserved to be bombed by the Russian army. Lomachenko was also spotted at the Kiev Pechersk Lavra.
Lomachenko previously refused to call Russia an aggressor. After the start of the full-scale Russian invasion, the boxer joined the ranks of the territorial defense of Belgorod-Dnestrovsky, and Shaternikova stated that Vasily was a serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The Ukrainian will fight with Australian George Kambosos for the vacant IBF lightweight belt. The event will take place on May 12 at the RAC Arena in Perth, Australia, starting approximately at 5 a.m. Kyiv time. The undercard of the event will feature fights between Carlos Cuadras and Andrew Moloney and Nina Hughes and Cherneka Johnson.
Source: Sportarena
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