In particular, the 24-year-old goalkeeper admitted that after the start of a full-scale invasion of the Russian army into Ukraine, certain difficulties arose in his career, and he was forced to return to his homeland..
He spoke about this in an interview with the Sports portal.. en.
" I was sitting in the locker room, they approached me and said that the league from above said to remove the flag in order to avoid provocations and aggression. And I had two of them on my helmet - Finnish and Russian.
Why should I stick my flag and leave yours? Let's glue both. After all, I drew them for friendship, not for enmity..
As for the personal negativity towards me, either I didn’t understand, or it didn’t happen. Nobody caught me on the street,"