Former player of the Ukrainian national team and Dynamo Kiev, and now a football expert Viktor Leonenko, disgraced himself with his statement that Russian athletes do not need to be punished against the backdrop of the invasion of the Russian army into Ukraine.

" Of course, no one believed in this and did not think about it.. But have come. When politicians get involved in sports, not only in civilian life, then there is no more sport.

Russian athletes will now only play at home. I don't think athletes are to blame. What to take from us? In Russia, you can immediately go to jail for words. Everything is clear here. Therefore, I don’t particularly condemn athletes, because many are silent due to the fact that you can get a term.

We are peaceful people, except that Aliyev can shoot from a machine gun. And then I'm not sure - perhaps he knows how to shoot. But he does likes, although I don’t like likes,” Leonenko said on the air of SportArena.

This position of Leonenko was sharply condemned by the former football player of the Lviv "

\! Final (probably meaning " ) cotton wool! "

\! Hu*lo invertebrate. Sports " You, Vitya, generally f*cked on the head? Thousands of our people are dying! Do you care about athletes?. My advice to you - f*ck the ship and never come back! And grab Lucescu, he is also a sport "