before the battle Oleksandr Usyk met with Ukrainian veterans in Riyadh — Ukraine
Absolute champion in super heavyweight Oleksandr Usyk met with Ukrainian veterans in the capital of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, before the fight with British boxer Tyson Fury.
This is stated in the message of DTEK.
A day before the fight, Oleksandr Usyk met with Ukrainian defenders who came to support the Ukrainian champion. Among them are miners and energy workers of DTEK, metallurgists of Metinvest, as well as defenders of Mariupol within the Heart of Azovstal project.
The veterans wished the boxer luck in the fight with Fury. About 40 Ukrainian defenders came to Riyadh to support Usyk.
The initiative became part of the joint campaign “Battle for Light” implemented by DTEK company Rinat Akhmetova and Oleksandr Usyk.
Its purpose is to draw attention to the problems of the Ukrainian energy industry, which suffered due to Russian shelling, and…