Ukrainian tennis player Sergiy Stakhovsky and boxer Vasiliy Lomachenko have signed up to help their nation’s defence against Russia’s invasion.
Stakhovsky says he hopes he will not have to use his gun, but he knows how to use it and “If I’ll have to, I’ll have to”.
The 36-year-old retired from tennis after the Australian Open in January and has returned to Kyiv to help his nation’s defence.
Lomachenko posted a photo on his Facebook account at the weekend – showing him wearing a military uniform with a rifle across his shoulder – saying he had joined the Ukrainian Territorial Defence Force.
Heavyweight boxing champion Oleksandr Usyk is also thought to have signed up.
Usyk, who beat Britain’s Anthony Joshua in September, has left his London base to go back to Ukraine.
The current mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, is also a former heavyweight boxing champion.
Source: BBC
