Ukraine’s Olympic wrestling champion and first black member of parliament has implored the rest of Europe to provide more support again the Russian invasion of his country.
Zhan Beleniuk — a gold medal-winner in Greco-Roman wrestling in Tokyo last summer, two years after he was elected an MP — is preparing to fight as part of the resistance. He has also called for the West to improve their efforts to assist the “last post protecting Europe”, including implementing a no-fly zone over Ukraine to prevent the deaths of more innocent people.
Beleniuk says that he will not leave Kyiv and is ready to take up arms
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“Unfortunately, it hasn’t been done because everybody’s afraid of a third world war,” he told The Guardian. “[Vladimir] Putin is a terrorist who is trying to intimidate the rest of the world with
