Sergiy Stakhovskyformer Ukrainian tennis player who became number 31 in the world who rose to fame after beating Roger Federer on Wimbledon second round in 2013has changed the racket for the rifle after returning to Ukraine to defend his country against the Russian invasion in a conflict that keeps the whole world on edge these days.
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The former player who He retired after the last Australian Open has given an interview in Sky News in which he relates how his return to his country has been to enlist in the military reserve of his country and thus go to the front. “The army has opened the reserves and all those who are willing to fight, to come and collect the weapons and form part of the territorial resistance”.
Stakhovsky is posting on social networks day by day since his return to his country and ensures that the mood in Kiev is good and that the Ukrainian people are far from surrendering to the Russian invasion, led from Moscow by a Vladimir Putin whom the former tennis player blames directly and the one who threatens with a strong message: “Putin, we will dance on your grave.”
Message to world leaders
The top representative of Ukrainian tennis over the last decade and winner of four ATP titles praised the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and assured that he has no problem picking up a rifle to fight the Russian army: “I have no military experience. I have experience with weapons, privately. I know how to use a weapon, if I have to use it, I will.”
I have no military experience, but I do use a weapon, if I have to use it, I will.
Finally, Stakhovsky sent a critical message to the leaders of the European Union for their lack of support in recent years for Ukraine in the face of a conflict that began in 2014. “It has been eight years of war with Russia, where has all this been?” coverage during this time? None of the European leaders, nor the world leaders, are ready to help, ready to fight in Ukraine to perhaps have a better Europe in the future”.
