Recently, Tokyo 2020 Olympic high jump champion Maria Lasitskene complained about the lack of modern sports equipment in the aggressor country, as Nike left the Russian market due to a full-scale invasion of the invaders in Ukraine.

" Recently, I looked at my current shoes and realized that this is my last pair of the latest collection.. But I still have the same model in stock, released in past seasons. So, it's not a problem and I can jump in them..

But I hope that Nike still remembers that there are athletes left in Russia, and we need modern equipment. We will think with the manager how to get it. The most important thing for me, I repeat, is spikes. And the whole season I jump in one pair. But some athletes change them every two months, because the shoes become unusable very quickly..

And for the third year I have been jumping at competitions in the same uniform of the 2019 World Champion. I looked at her yesterday, in one place everything is already in holes from hairpins. And the holes keep getting bigger. And now a new uniform has come out, which I, an Olympic champion, have never even seen. It's just that Nike, in accordance with the agreements, should supply me with a uniform, but now the agreements do not work in many respects.. The company itself does not want to try a little to get this form to us,"

Ukrainian skeletonist Vladislav Geraskevich answered the cynical whining of the Russian woman.

“Maria Lasitskene whined that she was left without spikes... Maria, what about the parents of Ukrainian athletes who were left without parents? " We add that earlier Lasitskene, who has the rank of captain of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, threw a tantrum because of the " Maria wrote an open letter to the head of the International Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach, in which she condemned the suspension of Russian and Belarusian athletes.

The full-scale war that Russia unleashed against Ukraine on February 24, 2022 claimed the lives of many Ukrainians, including athletes and their relatives.. In August, it became known about the death of the mother of Ukrainian athlete Kateryna Tabashnik as a result of shelling by Russians of a residential building in Kharkov.