16-year-old figure skater Anastasia Shabotova was excluded from the national figure skating team by order of the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ukraine, the press service of the Figure Skating Federation of Ukraine reports..

Shabotova previously liked a post on Evgeni Plushenko's Instagram in which he supported Russia's invasion of Ukraine..

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Note that Shabotova played in the Russian national team until 2019, and then changed her citizenship. At the 2022 Olympics in Beijing, she performed only in the short program and could not qualify for the free skate..

Recall that on February 24, Russian President Putin made an urgent statement about conducting a special military operation on the territory of Ukraine, launching a large-scale invasion of Ukrainian cities..

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Earlier it was reported that a young gymnast died in Mariupol as a result of shelling by Russian invaders..