The football player of the Russian national team and the Spanish Espanyol Nadezhda Karpova spoke out against the fact that Russian and Belarusian athletes were allowed to compete at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.

According to her, for the Kremlin dictator Vladimir Putin, sport is a powerful tool for propaganda and deception, so athletes from aggressor countries should not be allowed to participate in the Olympics while the war in Ukraine continues..

“I agree that now is probably not the moment when everyone should arrange a sports festival and go to competitions, because these victories will be misinterpreted in Russia itself.. Everything will work to strengthen the regime, and the people making these decisions should understand this.. It's no secret that, like for any dictator, sport for Putin is a powerful tool for fooling people, so I rather stand in solidarity with Ukrainian politicians: none (from Russian athletes - approx.. ) should not go to the Olympics.

Suppose athletes from Russia or Belarus, which is also involved in this conflict, are asked to comment on the events in Ukraine. I recently came across such an interview: the Belarusian tennis player Azarenka was asked at the Australian Open what she thinks about what is happening (we are talking about the Russian flag and the Z-symbol in the stands of the Australian Open - approx.. ), began to answer something like this: \? So I'm not a politician! "

And she does not say: " She responds in such a way that another context immediately turns on.. A person who watches it in Australia gets the impression that this is just a " And her strange answer works into the hands of this Putin propaganda. This is their main tool - to constantly replace concepts.

And they have a huge task in the West: to put everyone in the head of the opinion that this is not a terrible war of conquest so that the dictator can remain in power. No no no! They want everyone to think it's politics. And when Putin starts flirting with athletes like Ovechkin, he and his political strategists are well aware that they are buying the loyalty of millions of people who are fans of these athletes, and after all, it still works for propaganda..

I often notice that people from other countries also begin to experience the moment " And I think it needs to be stopped.. We must show that this war is absolutely terrible, and Putin is an aggressor, a fascist, an old dictator. People need to understand this clearly.. Therefore, I am absolutely in solidarity with the Ukrainian government, which says: " media.

In June last year, Karpova, in an interview with the BBC, harshly criticized the Putin regime and the war it unleashed in Ukraine..

Nadezhda stressed that the Kremlin's propaganda is trying to " In early November, the 27-year-old football player once again swore at Putin by quoting an anti-war poem..

Earlier, the International Olympic Committee announced that the final decision regarding the participation of athletes from Russia and Belarus in the 2024 Olympic Games has not yet been made..

Recall that Ukraine may boycott the 2024 Olympics if athletes from Russia and Belarus are allowed to compete..