A champion inside and outside the ring: Hall of Fame boxer Vitali Klitschko, mayor of Ukraine’s capital, vows to fight after Russia invasion – February 25, 2022,
Hall of Fame boxer Vitali Klitschko has vowed to fight in the “bloody war” after Russia invaded Ukraine, where he currently serves as the mayor of Ukraine’s capital Kyiv.
“I don’t have another choice. I have to do that,” Klitschko, 50, told “Good Morning Britain” Thursday. “I would fight.”
Klitschko was sworn in as the mayor of Kyiv and head of the Kyiv City State Administration in 2014, one year after retiring from professional boxing to take on a bigger fight in his native country: “My focus is on politics in Ukraine and I feel the people there need me.”