Ukrainian tennis player Sergiy Stakhovsky and boxer Vasiliy Lomachenko have signed up to help their nation's defence against Russia's invasion.

Stakhovsky says he hopes he will not have to use his gun, but he knows how to use it and "If I'll have to, I'll have to".

The 36-year-old retired from tennis after the Australian Open in January and has returned to Kyiv to help his nation's defence.

Lomachenko posted a photo on his Facebook account at the weekend - showing him wearing a military uniform with a rifle across his shoulder - saying he had joined the Ukrainian Territorial Defence Force.

Heavyweight boxing champion Oleksandr Usyk is also thought to have signed up.

Usyk, who beat Britain's Anthony Joshua in September, has left his London base to go back to Ukraine.

The current mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, is also a former heavyweight boxing champion.

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All these poor Ukrainian's stopped at the border and forced to fight...wait...

You seem happy the Ukrainians are setting up their own version of the Volkssturm, and happy about all of the sanctions, all escalations.

Why are you such a POS?

You seem quite in favor of propaganda. I flicked back through your post and found this





I get that you're mad now that your preferred narrative is busted. Sucks for you huh

edit: And I'm not Russian so you might as well knock off your childish insults

This post was edited by Djunior on Mar 1 2022 10:13am

Posting in a thread with unsubstantiated reports that argues against believing unsubstantiated reports with OP incapable of taking their own advice.

So you argue that the Ukraine navy is unsubstantiated? Ukraine itself admitted that the soldiers are alive. Who are you to try and uphold a narrative that was busted...

So is putin going to launch nukes over a couple subs or no?

I certainly hope not, I'm one of the few here who have argued against escalation from the beginning...

The far left warmongers are happy though, they seem to be getting the major escalation that they are rooting for. You should ask them

Assumptions during war about soldiers that never came back into communication are fair to make. You act like someone was going to run over and check for dead bodies during an invasion just to make sure.

Be for real.

Exactly, it's an island.
They would have to swim.

You forget these are modern countries. Clearly gonna use