Tournament scandal.
Ukrainian figure skaters Maxim Nikitin and Alexander Nazarov were forced to remove the words of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky from their performance at the World Championships in France.
According to Tribuna.com, initially a 15-second fragment of the speech of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky was included in the previously presented version of the musical cut, in which the head of our state called for peace, but the organizers of the competition asked to cut this piece.
According to ISU (International Union of Skaters), this call was propagandistic , and the Ukrainian duo had to perform without the words of Zelensky.
It should be noted that the Ukrainians performed a rhythm dance to a mix of Jamala's songs “1944” and the Ukrainian folk song “Oh, there is a red viburnum in the meadow” performed by the group “Boombox”.
We will remind, on February 24 the president of the Russian Federation Putin made the urgent statement on carrying out special military operation in the territory of Ukraine, having begun large-scale invasion of the Ukrainian cities.
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Earlier it was reported that the Ukrainian figure skater was expelled from the team for liking the post in support of Russia 's military invasion.
