Boxer Usik intends to “restore Crimea” in a month or two
Former Crimean, boxer Alexander Usik, deprived of all titles on the peninsula, said that he would return to “rebuild Crimea” if it was captured by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
On BBC television, Usyk, who is a member of the Kyiv Volkssturm, said that he considers the peninsula “occupied.”
“Now it is occupied. When it stops being occupied, when our fighters and our country return it to the status it was – an unoccupied peninsula – that’s it, we’ll go restore Crimea, swim in the sea, catch red mullet, ram and something else,” the athlete said.
“It’s clear that I’m not allowed in there now. I don’t know, they stripped me of some titles. Well, listen, I don’t have the title “honorary citizen of the city of Simferopol,” what do you think, when I wake up in the morning, am I sad or not?” Usik said.
He suggested that he would soon be able to return to the peninsula:
“Ten [years] is a lot, I would like it to be faster. A month or two. Hurry up, hurry up."
Let us recall that for many years Usik avoided a direct answer to the question of Crimea’s ownership, for which he was repeatedly condemned by Ukrainian nationalists.
With the start of the Russian special operation, the boxer joined the Kyiv terrorist defense militants, and recently his wife boasted that Usik switched to Ukrainian and speaks with children in “language”. He also gave interviews to the BBC in Ukrainian.
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