Ukrainian Boxing Legend Klitschko Urges World To ‘Act Now’
Former world boxing heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko appealed to the world to “act now” to stop the conflict in his country Ukraine and prevent a humanitarian catastrophe in a video posted on social media.
Wladimir and his brother Vitali, also a former world heavyweight champion and now mayor of Kyiv, have both vowed to take up arms against invading Russian forces.
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— Klitschko (@Klitschko) February 26, 2022
“I’m addressing the entire world to stop this war that Russia has started,” Wladimir said in a video posted on twitter.
“There’s no time to wait because it’s going to lead into a humanitarian catastrophe. You need to act now to stop Russian aggression with anything you can have now. In an hour, or by tomorrow it’s going to be too late.”
Wladimir enlisted in Ukraine’s reserve army earlier this month, saying at the time that his love for his country compelled him to defend it.
Russian forces invaded Ukraine from three sides early on Thursday in what President Vladimir Putin called a “special military operation” to protect people, including Russian citizens, subjected to “genocide” in Ukraine – an accusation Kyiv and the West calls baseless propaganda.
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