Promising Ukrainian boxer Sergei Bogachuk (21-1, 21 KOs) shared his opinion on the position Vasily Lomachenko (17-2, 11 KOs), who has not yet condemned Russia for a full-scale war in Ukraine.
“Lomachenko is criticized for having many friends and acquaintances from Russia. He has many friends here and there. He wants to be friends with them and with ours. Lomachenko wants peace. He drowns for this world, but you understand, when the war began, such a situation in Ukraine, friends are no longer friends here, but you need to specifically decide how Usyk did it.
First of all, I respect Usyk as a person. Of course, as a boxer, this is understandable, but first of all as a person. When it all started, Usyk specifically decided that he was for Ukraine, that Crimea was Ukraine. Usyk made it clear to everyone that he is for Ukraine, that this is his home, and he is with Ukraine to the last.
In this regard, he is a man, I respect him as a person. But with Vasya, it’s the opposite. Whether he can't make up his mind - I don't understand this situation. If I knew him better and communicated with him, I could talk more. As I see the situation from the outside, he cannot decide.
He remains in Ukraine. He could leave and not say anything. If he was specifically for another country. No matter how, he won two Olympics. Vasya glorified Ukraine for a long time and what Vasya did, few people did it. The only claim to his words is that we are brothers, ”Bogachuk told the Odniya leva channel.
Recall that Bogachuk knocked out Aaron Cowley earlier in the United States.
