Biathlete Olga Abramova, who was born in Russia, but has been playing for the Ukrainian national team since 2012, commented on her exclusion from the national team.

" But the most annoying thing is that when you prove to everyone that there is no nationalism in Ukraine, it's all provocation. You are fired for being a Russian by nationality,"

However, an hour later, Abramova deleted this " In it, she stated that she was categorically against the war that Russia unleashed against Ukraine.. The biathlete explained that she was forced to leave for the Russian Federation at the beginning of a full-scale invasion to her 1.5-year-old daughter, who was there.

" Since the first days of the war, I have been categorically against the invasion of Ukraine!

Indeed, on February 24, on the first day of the war, while at a training camp in Syanki, Lviv region, for reasons beyond my control, I was forced to leave the territory of the sports center and go to the Transcarpathian region. After that, having crossed the border with Hungary, I went to my one and a half year old daughter, who at that time was in Russia.

10 years of my sports career passed under the Ukrainian flag, 10 years I am a citizen of Ukraine and I am proud of it! And now my heart also hurts for all the suffering people for all the innocent victims and millions of ruined destinies.

I watch with horror what is happening with my native Kharkov and Chernigov, how the ski base was completely destroyed, which became my second home, how dozens of other cities throughout Ukraine were wiped off the face of the earth.

But why then now, when our country needs unity and support, we start some kind of internal showdown and look for traitors where there are none? Because of the ambitions of one person, I have not stopped loving this country and people.

I wish everyone patience, endurance in this difficult time and, of course, a peaceful sky over their heads," In addition to Abramova, two other naturalized Russians, Ekaterina Bekh and Oksana Moskalenko, were also excluded from the Ukrainian national biathlon team.. They 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..