A Ukrainian tennis-player-turned-soldier reflects on four years of war
When Russia launched the full scale war, Sergiy Stakhovsky, a former professional tennis player, who, in 2013, famously knocked Roger Federer out of Wimbledon, was on holiday in Dubai with his family. He was celebrating his recent retirement from professional tennis after being defeated at the Australian Open. When Weekend spoke to him a few days afterwards, he told us he'd left them behind and returned to Ukraine to fight. He's been serving with one of the Ukraine Army's elite unites ever since.
He has returned to the programme, four years later, to give his thoughts and reflections of what's happened in that time.
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