Three Russian biathletes will compete for the junior team of Ukraine in biathlon: Ekaterina Bekh, Anastasia Rasskazova and Oksana Moskalenko.

This was told by the president of the Biathlon Federation of Ukraine Vladimir Brynzak. He also noted that Ilya Lopukhov, biathlete coach, along with athletes moved to Ukraine.

"These three girls were invited by the Belarusian Federation. They retired in Moscow, passed the training camp with the Belarusian team, but something did not work out, and they called me. Parents of Ukrainian girls, documents for citizenship are now at the stage of registration. We athletes of this level in any case will not interfere, especially given that in this age group we experience a certain staff deficit.

Lopukhov continues to work with them, we also connected Valentina Shevchenko. As far as I know, after the summer championship of Ukraine it is planned that young athletes from the national team will also move to prepare for the junior group, thus forming the nearest reserve of the first team and simultaneously preparing for their competitions - junior starts and the IBU Cup, "Brynzak said in a Facebook commentary -page biathlon. com. ua.

Recall that in early May 2018, the women's biathlon team was headed by a Russian specialist Andrei Prokunin.