World Champion of heavy goods vehicles Oleksandr Usyk pleaded with US President Donald Trump in an interview with CNN SportsAsking the president to help Ukraine as she continues his fight against a large -scale Russian invasion.
“(President) Donald Trump, please open (your) eyes, help my people,” CNN Usyk told CNN – probably the largest star in Ukrainian sport – in CNN.
WBC, WBA and WBO heavyweight champion, continued by saying that he thought Trump must live up to his campaign promise to end the war, after promising to end the conflict within 24 hours during the American presidential campaign.
“He should be responsible for the words he said,” said Usyk. “He said that in a month or a day, he would stop this war. He is not responsible for his words. Why is he talking?”
Usyk also invited the American president to visit kyiv, offering to welcome him to his house so that he can better understand what regular Ukrainians are going through every day and every day, with a dam after drone and missile dam.
Oleksandr USYK during a private boxing training on which CNN attended. – Vasco Cotovio / CNN
“I offer him my house. Let him come to Ukraine. I will give him my house and my security guards. I will make sure his full safety,” Usyk told CNN Sports. “Let him live with me for a week and see how the rockets fly and how people live in Ukraine.
“Let him come and live for a week, not only one day, but let him come secretly so that no one knows that he has arrived,” added the heavyweight champion, explaining that if Moscow knows that he is in the country, it will stop his attacks.
“And when he secretly comes, let him live somewhere in (kyiv’s districts) Obolon or Troyeshchyna, where houses, residential buildings are bombed … So he will understand what’s going on.”
Born in Simferopol, in Crimea, Usyk lived on the outskirts of Kyiv but was Outside the country in London Filming sequences for a video game when Russia launched its large -scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. While the Russian tanks closed kyiv, he returned to his country of origin, joining the defense territorial forces by defending the capital.
Usyk hits a bag of punch in an energy factory devastated in the center of Ukraine to hear stories of survival and resilience of front -line workers who keep the lights for Ukraine on March 17. – Libkos / Getty Images
His family home in Vorzel was famous and ransacked by Russian soldiers while they were unleashed in the neighboring suburbs of Hostomel, Irpin and Bucha, to leave and a trace of destruction in their wake.
Stimulated by the Personniers of injured Ukrainian soldiers who urged her To “fight for the country”, Usyk has since resumed its professional boxing career, but has visited the fronts on several occasions, maintaining close contact with its soldiers’ colleagues.
But even if he is preparing for a fight against British Daniel Dubois on July 19, who could see him become the undisputed heavyweight champion for the second time, Ukraine is very at the forefront of his mind.
“It is a little difficult to balance things when your family is in kyiv,” he said, explaining that his wife and two daughters remain inside the country. “But I just know that my Ukrainian people and my Ukrainian soldiers will protect them.
“It’s difficult, but I can go out to do my job, so that I can help my country later,” he said. “I am completely focused on the fight, on my preparation.”
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