BC Prometey’s female athletes, who are in Mersin to meet Çukurova Basketball Yenişehir Municipality in the last 8 rounds of the FIBA Women’s European Cup, want the war to end. Women athletes calling for peace to Russia stated that their families are in a difficult situation. “We’re like a worm living in a basement right now,” said Team Captain Olga Dubrovina.
Ukraine representative BC Prometey will face Çukurova Basketball Yenişehir Municipality in Mersin at 19.00 today in the match of the last 8 rounds of the FIBA Women’s European Cup. Ukrainian women basketball players, who had their last training before the match, wanted the war to end and peace to come to their country again.
“We’re like a worm living in a basement”
Speaking to the UAV reporter about the war in their country, team captain Olga Dubrovina stated that they are faced with a very difficult situation, “Because there is something we are not used to, we have not experienced. Right now, we are like a worm living in the basement. Everyone, including my grandmother, lives in the basement. “We want it to end as soon as possible. We are free people. However, the Russian Federation does not take this seriously in any way. It treats us very badly. I call on the whole world to stop this. These things must end as soon as possible,” he said.
“We will continue to fight until the end”
Noting that she is constantly trying to talk to her family, Dubrovina said, “There is a system called Katakom, I try to communicate from there. Because they live in the basement right now, communication is difficult. This is a process we have experienced before, but we have never experienced like this. We experienced similar things in 2014. Russia o “He was trying to impose capitulations on us during the period. However, this is the first time he has reached such a level. As a citizen of Ukraine, as a Ukrainian, I absolutely do not accept this. We will not accept neither the capitulations nor the sanctions of Russia as a country. We will continue to fight until the end. At the moment, my brother too He went to war with the army in 2014, and now he is in the same situation,” he said.
Yurkevichus: “Stop the war”
One of the athletes, Tetiana Yurkevichus, said that there is a war going on in their country right now and it is a very difficult situation for them. Emphasizing that it was the Russians who started this war, not themselves, Yurkevichus said, “I am on the phone with my family. I try to call them every 1-2 hours every day. I both find out what happened and ask if they need help. My message to the whole world is to stop the war. Especially here, I made this call to Russia. “As a country, we are a free country and we will continue to do so,” he said.
Emphasizing that they are currently staying in Bulgaria, Yurkevichus said, “First of all, I would like to thank the Bulgarian government. They have been hosting us for 15 days. Somehow we continue to live there, but our minds are always in Ukraine. We are trying to return there as soon as possible. “It is not possible, but as soon as these events pass, our first job will be to return to Ukraine,” he said.
Yurkevichus, who also expressed his thoughts on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, said, “Right now I see him as a Ukrainian leader and it doesn’t really matter where he comes from. He is at the head of the army and is fighting for Ukraine. This is what is important for us, too.”
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