Thus, the 41-year-old ex-football player of St. Petersburg "
Shirokov stated this in an interview with the R-Sport propaganda news agency..
It should be noted that in addition to Crimea, this person mentioned Donetsk and Luhansk occupied by Russia since 2014, as well as Kherson, which the Russian Federation captured after February 24, 2022, when their full-scale invasion of Ukraine took place..
" We say that we will be returned to European competition in two years - and let's not accept Crimea. Let's not accept Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson.
And let's look at this LGBT community, what will it tell us. So it’s more important for us to preserve sovereignty or see what some roosters from Europe will tell us? It seems to me that the first. It is in this paradigm that we need to act,"
Earlier, TSN Prosport said that the Ukrainian ex-football player Alexander Aliyev threatened Shirokov if he got in his way somewhere.