The wife of the WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO world heavyweight champion Alexander Usik Ekaterina said that Russian boxer Alexander Povetkin called her husband on the phone after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

According to her, " Apparently, Povetkin receives information from Russian propaganda..

" The fact that Povetkin began to tell something there, he does not understand anything at all. He began to call Sasha on the phone and tell stories that something is wrong with us, that something seems to us.

How does he know that we have? A lot of people freaked out. Didn't support, didn't write anything.

And in peacetime there were some calls, brotherly heart, then, then. Now I'm looking - what a brotherly heart? My God? Everything, the war opened all the cards, all the people. Boxers, not boxers - just everyone. Unfortunately, at such a price, it’s just terrible, but people showed everything who is who, and this probably should have happened,"

Earlier it was reported that the 2020 Paralympic medalist will sell a medal to raise funds for the restoration of her native university.