EX UFC fighter from Russia, Khabib Nurmagomedov, is still silent about the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Seeing this condition, netizens were busy urging Khabib to immediately speak up regarding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine because his actions were considered to have helped save many lives in this conflict.
As is known, Russia has carried out the military invasion since Thursday, February 24, 2022. This invasion had a major impact in a number of aspects, including sports.
A number of sports federations are known to have decided to suspend Russian and Belarusian athletes because they supported the invasion. Some federations that have done it are football, boxing, and also badminton.
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In addition to the suspension of athletes, the impact of this invasion of course is the loss of life from both countries. In Ukraine itself, there are a number of athletes who died because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Two Ukrainian footballers, Vitalii Sapylo (21 years) and Dmytro Martynenko (25 years), died during the Russian invasion of their country. Sapylo died in the battle against Russia while defending his country. While Martynenko, he died with his mother at the place where he lived. The cause of their death was a bomb exploded in their residence.
In the midst of this condition, a number of figures in the world of sports have voiced their voice for the war to be stopped immediately. However, Khabib Nurmagomedov chose to remain silent. In fact, he himself comes from Russia.
