The wife of the WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO world heavyweight champion Alexander Usik Ekaterina explained why, after the annexation of Crimea by Russia, the athlete did not clearly express his position for a long time.

According to the wife of the girl, the Ukrainian boxer could not answer provocative questions, because the family constantly received threats.

" I constantly drove with the Ukrainian flag in a car and they promised to blow it up. A friend came up to me and said: “Katya, they told me, if you don’t take off the flag of Ukraine, the car will be blown up”. Of course no one did anything.

When Sasha's paid journalists constantly asked: \? " Everyone knew where I lived, and they were capable of anything. Sanya simply could not express his position. It got to the point that they threatened to come home, find something forbidden in Russia and send me to a pre-trial detention center, and the children to an orphanage. You understand that if they wanted to find something, they found! Here's your answer, why Sasha couldn't say anything.

Now they're threatening to take my house away. Let them take away! Anyway, sooner or later Crimea will return to Ukraine. And the Crimeans know it,"

Usyk's wife also spoke about how different Ukrainians and Russians are..

“When I went to Ukraine, the Crimean border guards looked at my passport and said, laughing: “You are the wife of a boxer, he probably beats. ) Can you imagine what a perverted concept of reality they have? They think wife beating is okay. What nafig we take?

We are very different,"

After a full-scale Russian invasion, Usyk entered the territorial defense, but later received permission to leave the country and said that he would be preparing for revenge from Anthony Joshua.

Oleksandr posted a video message on his Instagram page, where he explained his decision to leave Ukraine in the conditions of war. According to the boxer, in this way he will help his country more.

Earlier it was reported that Joshua's promoter Eddie Gearn named a potential date and place for a rematch with Usyk. The fight will be announced soon.