“It’s hard, but it’s like that”: the ex-tennisman Sergiy Stakhovsky tells her three years at the front in Ukraine

The life of Sergiy Stakhovsky changed on February 24, 2022, the day of the invasion launched by Russia. The former Ukrainian tennis player (39) had then decided to leave Dubai to join the military reserve of his country. The former world world in 2010, which continues its mission within the Ukrainian army, confided in an interview given to the team.

“Recently, my life on the forehead has changed slightly,” he said. In any case, the missions entrusted to my unit have changed. We now have very short missions, over three or four days each time. We then return to kyiv, where we are based, then we leave. I don’t have the right to reveal exactly what we are doing, but it works well. It has a significant impact on the Russian economy so it’s a good sign. »»

Committed to a conflict he imagined much shorter, Sergiy Stakhovsky already feels the effects of stopping the support of the United States. “Everything that was planned, all the meetings, everything was canceled overnight,” he says. But hey, it’s not as if we could go to the arms and go home … since we are with us! It provokes anger, but it is the President of the United States, the American people elected it. A decision far from starting his morale.

“Our economy works, our public services too, people work, factories are running,” he continues. Without the supply of military equipment, without the information on the movements of Russian troops on Russian territory or in Ukraine, it will be the same as before that it will cost us more lives. We get used to everything. We all know that people will die. »»