The current President of the Biathlon Federation of Ukraine Volodymyr Brynzak will not participate in the elections and will leave his post, KAMPsport reports..

Elections to be held May 18. According to the source, they will not be canceled due to the war, and Brynzac will not be among the candidates..

Volodymyr Brynzak has led the Ukrainian biathlon since 1998. It is very likely that his decision was influenced by the conflict with the majority of Ukrainian biathletes, which occurred after the start of Russia's military invasion of Ukraine.

Brynzak said in an interview that the naturalized Russians from the Ukrainian national team were in the Russian Federation at the start of the war and ended up stuck there.

However, several Ukrainian biathletes immediately accused Brynzak of lying..

Moreover, Kristina Dmitrenko noted that Russian athletes urgently returned home after they learned about the beginning of the invasion:.

" Everyone was in Syanki at the training camp, getting ready for the IBU Cup, and when the war started, they packed up and went home. That feeling when they worry more about the naturalized than about their own"

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Earlier it was reported that the International Biathlon Union suspended the membership of Russia and Belarus in the organization.