Mayor of Kyiv, former world heavyweight champion Vitaliy Klichko announced that he and his wife Natalya had decided to divorce. After 25 years of marriage, the Klitschek family parted "calmly, without soap operas."
“We filed for divorce together, because we lived separately for many years, and now we want it to be official. We have very good relations and respect for each other, but we have been living separately for a long time in different cities, ”said Klitschko, who this year, along with his brother Vladimir, also a former champion of the royal division, actively fought against Putin’s Russian attack on Ukraine .
Vitaly and Natalya have three children - Yegor-Daniil, Maxim and Elizabeth-Victoria. Vitaly recently turned 51 years old. Natalya is 48 years old, she is a yoga instructor, songwriter and singer.
“I am grateful for everything that has been on our joint journey of 25 years. Our divorce is a deliberate, mutually accepted decision,” Natalya wrote in one of the social networks.
“Over the many years of living in different countries, our life paths gradually diverged,” she explained. — We have always supported and will continue to support each other under any circumstances. I wish Vitaly only the very best. A new chapter of life begins."
The former boxer mayor of Kyiv, and his wife still lives in Hamburg. Despite the fact that she is less and less connected with Vitaliy, she actively helped him and Ukrainian refugees, and also collected donations for the Klitschko Brothers Foundation "We are all Ukrainians 2022". This cooperation will continue in the coming months.