The Ministry of Youth and Sports has decided to exclude naturalized Russians from the Ukrainian biathlon team.

This was announced by the state coach of Ukraine in biathlon Evgeny Kolupaev in a comment to Biathlon. com. ua.

Ekaterina Bekh, Oksana Moskalenko and Olga Abramova, who left for Russia after the start of the war, are no longer included in the national team of Ukraine.

According to the coach, according to the results of the last season, the biathletes did not fulfill the criteria for getting into the team and receiving wages..

Abramova has been playing for Ukraine since 2012, Bekh and Moskalenko moved to the Ukrainian national team in 2018.

Recall that the president of the Biathlon Federation Volodymyr Brinzak said that most of the naturalized biathletes of the Ukrainian national team were in Russia at the time of the start of a full-scale war and now keep fit in the Russian Federation, because they allegedly " However, the leader of the men's team denied this information..