2016 Olympic champion in gymnastics Oleg Vernyaev shared eerie footage from Kharkiv, where a large number of buildings were destroyed as a result of shelling and bombing by Russian troops that invaded Ukraine.

The 28-year-old gymnast showed on his Instagram the extremely serious damage caused to the city's sports infrastructure.. Halls for fencing and boxing are almost completely destroyed by the occupiers. Now only ruins remain.

Vernyaev said that peaceful residents of Kharkiv, who had previously lost their homes, were hiding from shelling in the boxing hall. Fortunately, they managed to leave the building and escape before an enemy shell hit it..

Earlier it was reported that Vernyaev came to the defense of Ukraine from the occupiers. A native of Donetsk, at the beginning of a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, called for the complete isolation of the Russian Federation from international sports.