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Ukrainian by mother and Russian by father, Oleksandr feels completely Ukrainian and can’t wait to return home.
The war found him far from his hometown, in Durrës where the world taekwondo championship is taking place.
”Russian aggression is terrible. My mom is 75 years old. He told me he would not leave Kiev. She is a doctor and in time of war doctors are part of the army. Every doctor should help. While my father is a Russian officer in Crimea. He told me that Russia is the winner, but no. Crimea for me and all of us is Ukraine. A big problem in my family. My grandparents live in the Crimea“, Says Oleksandr.
With the onset of the attacks in Ukraine, sadness and anxiety gripped Ukrainian teams over the dire situation and inability to contact their families.
”I am the coach of the Ukrainian national taekwondo youth team. The war found us here. We are experiencing a very bad situation and want to return to our country, but the airport is closed. Flights have been canceled. We found tickets to Estonia, but after 5 days. We have received a lot of support from the Albanian Taekwondo Federation and all Albanian colleagues, yes, the Greeks and Poles have offered us shelter, we want to return to our families as soon as possible‘.
Faced with this unusual situation, the organizers of this championship say that TCH how the situation is being managed, without compromising the continuity of the sports activity that brought together in Durrës athletes from all over the world, including Russian and Ukrainian. The first group of 8 people according to him left on Saturday by bus to Poland to cross the border from there.
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