Naturalized Russian biathlete Daria Sidorova excluded from the Ukrainian biathlon team.

The information that previously appeared in the Ukrainian media has now been publicly confirmed by the athlete herself..

The 22-year-old biathlete said she was no longer going to play for the Ukrainian national team. At the beginning of the full-scale war of Russia against Ukraine, the athlete was on the territory of the aggressor country, where she then decided to stay with her family.

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In connection with this situation, I expressed an opinion, but did not disclose it fully. I feel sorry for the people who found themselves in the current situation on both sides, I worry about people I know well, I myself lived at a ski base in Chernihiv, where almost all of my things and equipment were. In fact, I was left without everything, but this is not as exciting as the lives of people on both sides.

I want to continue my sports career because biathlon gives me great pleasure. Do I consider returning to the Ukrainian national team?

No, there is no clarity on further actions, where and how I will be,"

Earlier it was reported that three other naturalized Russians - Olga Abramova, Kateryna Bekh and Oksana Moskalenko - were also excluded from the Ukrainian national biathlon team..

Abramova reacted to her expulsion from the Ukrainian national team, saying that she was proud of Ukrainian citizenship and condemned the war unleashed by Russia. After that, the Ukrainian biathletes appealed to the Minister of Youth and Sports of Ukraine Vadim Gutsait with a request to reconsider the decision to exclude Olga Abramova from the national team.