The Secretary General of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), Andreas Zagklis, announced that clubs from Russia and Belarus will not be allowed to participate in tournaments in the near future..

The functionary made a statement at the FIBA-Europe General Assembly in Munich:.

" In the near future we will not allow them to official international competitions.. Thus, FIBA \u200b\u200bexpresses its full solidarity with the Ukrainian people,"

President of the Basketball Federation of Ukraine Mikhail Brodsky, Secretary General of the FBU Volodymyr Drabikovsky and Honorary President of the FBU Oleksandr Volkov also took part in the General Assembly..

The Ukrainian delegation and representatives of the coalition of Poland, the Baltic States and the Nordic countries left the hall when the representative of Belarus spoke.

“We hope that the war will end soon, and we will again live and work for the good of basketball, as we did before, and not look back at the sounds of air raid alerts and the fight against the aggressor.. We believe that in the end this war will end and the truth will win over dirt,"

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Earlier it was reported that the Russian national basketball team was not allowed to qualify for the 2024 Olympics..