Recently, the Ukrainian champion of Europe and the world Anita Seregina won another award for our country - the "

About how “Bandera smoothies” and sports are combined, the 32-year-old karateka spoke in an exclusive commentary for TSN journalist Oksana Tkachenko.

" I understood that we are preparing for a reason. If such a situation occurs where it will be necessary to throw a Molotov cocktail into a tank, if God forbid they will call in our cities. We are defending our territory, we are defending our city,"

When the full-scale war began, Anita had just returned from the competition in the United Arab Emirates and was in Kyiv.

" We heard fighter jets flying,"

In the first weeks of a full-scale war, there was absolutely no time for training. Seregina took her family to a safe place, and she herself began to actively help the Ukrainian military - together with her coach, they organized a help headquarters for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Anita was instructed to bring humanitarian aid, because they could let her go abroad.

But after a few weeks, the sport returned to her life.. Training resumed - because it was necessary to defend the honor of our country even in war.

" Not only at the front, but also at competitions,"

She admits that now she can no longer rejoice at her sports success, as before..

" Each medal is " But now the sediment in the heart is constant - anxiety for relatives and friends who are in Ukraine,"

Seregina's next competitions are scheduled for July. These are international games in American Birmingham. The athlete dreams that at this time she will represent a country in which the war has finally stopped.

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Earlier, TSN Prosport reported that the Ukrainian karateka Anzhelika Terlyuga defeated the Olympic champion and won the “gold” of the European Championship.