Nel 2022, la moglie di Usyk gli mandò un messaggio che la Russia stava invadendo l’Ucraina. Il pugile volava immediatamente in Polonia, guidò a Kyiv e si unì al battaglione di difesa territoriale.

[Usyk recalls the nightmare of the Ukrainian frontline: I saw people with no arms or legs, others like walking dead](https://www.marca.com/en/boxing/2023/08/24/64e7268822601d3c2c8b4580.html)

“I lived with the troops. I was there for them.

“Through binoculars from 900 metres I saw my enemies running, tanks exploding, houses broken.

“I saw people with no arms or legs. I saw those who could still walk looking like the walking dead.

“Everything, everywhere, dead. I went by car around a city. A dead city. Zero energy.

“We went past a kids’ playground. The toys are lying in that place but no children playing. It was dead.”
“Some of the men I was with on the frontline did not understand me wanting to be with them,” he said.

“They asked me ‘Why are you here? What are you doing? Even some of the generals don’t come to this place’.

“I told them I was no general, just a regular Ukrainian guy, like them.

I remember a news report where ChadLensky told him to keep boxing because that could help UKR more than he could as a soldier.

He was right because winning boxing championship titles is how he raised more support for Ukraine.

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