Former tennis pro Sergiy Stakhovsky, who is fighting in the Ukraine war, reports on the war on biathlete Erik Lesser’s Instagram channel.
Oberhof/Kyiv – the Thuringian Biathlete Erik Lesser (33) has put his Instagram channel in other hands again to talk about the war in Ukraine to report. This time the reporter is former tennis pro Sergiy Stakhovsky (36).
Biathlete Erik Lesser (33, left) continues his action. This time, former tennis pro Sergiy Stakhovsky (36) reports on the ski hunter’s Instagram channel about the Ukraine war. (Archive images/montage) © Angelika Warmuth/dpa/IMAGO/Xinhua
“Hello everyone, my name is Sergiy Stakhovsky, I’m a former Ukrainian tennis player and now I’m in Kyiv defending my country,” the 36-year-old said in English to the camera. The video can be seen in Erik Lesser’s Instagram story.
The Thuringian ski hunter, who hangs up the narrow boards and rifle after the season, had already made his channel available to the Ukrainian biathlete Anastassija Merkuschyna (27) at the weekend to report on the war in Ukraine. The 33-year-old was then unfollowed by 10,000 of his 30,000 Russian followers, as Lesser announced on Sunday via Instagram.
Nevertheless, the Thuringian continues with the war reconnaissance. This time the 36-year-old Stakhovsky is one of the reporters from “news agency” Lesser.
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“I want to thank Erik for giving me his Instagram account to convince the Russian followers that this war is crazy,” said the former tennis pro, who wore a military-patterned jacket in the video. wearing pattern.
The 36-year-old looks tired and scarred by the war. The clip does not reveal where exactly he is when the video is recorded. In another video he is in a moving car.
The Ukrainian ex-tennis pro Sergiy Stakhovsky (36) succeeds the Ukrainian biathlete Anastasiya Merkushyna (27) as a “war reporter”. © Screenshots/Erik Lesser/Instagram
“It’s something you don’t really want to do,” Stakhovsky said in an interview, alluding to the fact that he’s defending his country. He has three children and wants to “enjoy” the time with the offspring, especially after the end of his career. “Instead I’m here in Kyiv with a gun trying to prove Russia is doing the wrong thing.”
Morally, he was “one hundred percent” right, said the 36-year-old. However, he also emphasizes that more needs to happen than the world sending “appreciation, love and their prayers” and “support” to others.
However, that alone is not enough. The politicians are the “main actors”. If they had the chance to intervene overnight, Stakhovsky believes they should do so – but not at the price of giving up Ukraine.
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Because then Russia would find “every single person” who resisted. Russia would find a way to get rid of these people, they would “kill, imprison, poison” someone, he warns. Russia these days is the Soviet Union under the Stalin era – “a machine that kills people,” he says.
According to Stakhovsky, he writes in Russian on the Lesser channel. In a post, illustrated with footage of a destroyed bridge, the translation reads: “On Sunday, March 6, on the way from the town of Irpen to the Kiev region, occupying Russian forces fired in their attempt to evacuate the town , on civilians.”
“STOP THE RUSSIAN SOLDIERS,” adds the fighting ex-tennis pro.
