Kickboxing, military drills, running through underground tunnels and handling hand grenades: Vitali Klitschko - the multimillionaire former boxing champion and now Kyiv’s hero mayor - says he always thought his military upbringing as the son of a Soviet Air Force general in Ukraine would prove invaluable in defending his home country.
The strange fact of it is it’s not the “crazy Americans” he’s ended up fighting against in his twelfth year as the capital’s mayor, but the Russian nation his own father so proudly fought for.
