Boxing promoter Bob Arum says that Oleksandr Usyk and Vasyl Lomachenko have been given permission to leave Ukraine in order to train for upcoming fights by the country’s Minister of Culture, Oleksandr Tkachenko.
Fighters Usyk and Lomachenko returned to Ukraine at the end of February after Russia launched an invasion of the country across land, air, and sea. In just under a month since the assault began, cities including Kharkiv and Mariupol have been decimated by shelling, while over three million people are estimated to have fled Ukraine.
