Perturbation of Ukrainian fans is increasing in connection with the appointment of Russian Andrey Prokunin to the main post of coach of the women's national team of Ukraine in biathlon. This is said by Ukrainian commentator Andrei Stolyarchuk. The journalist received a huge amount of messages from the fans, where they wrote that they would no longer watch biathlon. Fans have counted appointment of the Russian trainer the personal insult.

"The appointment of Andrei Prokunin for me is reduced to the fact that in the fifth year of the Russian-Ukrainian war to put the senior coach of the Ukrainian national team of the Russian specialist - simply immoral. I do not even want to somehow analyze his athletic past and what he achieved as a coach of the South Korean team, "says the sports website. en. Prior to his appointment, Andrey Prokunin, champion and prize-winner of the Winter Universiade of 1990. , coached the South Korean team for 2 years.