SENCHENKO: “Russian athletes who support the war are not people”

Former World Champion Vyacheslav Senchenko He talked about how his acquaintances from Russia and Belarus reacted to the outbreak of war with Ukraine, and admitted that people like Alexander Povetkin were no longer people to him.

“I communicate more with coaches, not with athletes anymore. Those athletes who supported the war, Povetkin there… We wrote to each of them. And it’s not just Povetkin, there is this whole … I don’t even know what to call them. I don’t see them as people. If people supported the war, is it their president who started this war? I don’t see them as people, they are not people. This is a sick society. I don’t even want to speak for them, for me they are not human.

But about the coaches, I will say that I was surprised. Coaches from Yekaterinburg, Moscow, Belarus, with whom I communicated and communicated, in the first days asked me how I was doing, asked if everything was fine and wrote: “Putin – started a war with *pi* brother people.” I must be lucky that my friends are enough people. But only one wrote about the Nazis, all nonsense, about the Donbass. But he is the only one, everyone I spoke to said that Putin is disgusting, they sympathize with us.

Friends from Yekaterinburg said that they wrote letters, that they came out with a peaceful action, but everything was difficult there, without options they could not affect anything. We need mass. But people do not go out en masse, there is a sick, sick society,” Senchenko said.