French Montpellier is hosting the World Figure Skating Championships, which included performances of couples in rhythm dance.

Ukraine in this discipline was represented by Alexander Nazarov and Maxim Nikitin.

Athletes had to take to the ice in training uniforms. After the 2022 Olympics, the athletes returned to Kharkiv, where they were at the time of the invasion of Russian troops into Ukraine. Nazarova managed to immediately leave the city, but Nikitin spent three weeks in Kharkov under shelling.

As a result, he still managed to leave the city, and together with Nazarova went to the World Cup, but the couple did not have costumes for the performance..