MOSCOW, April 15 Biathletes of the Ukrainian national team Valeria Dmytrenko, Anna Krivonos, Nadezhda Belkina, Yulia Zhuravok and Kristina Dmitrenko sent an open letter to the Minister of Youth and Sports of Ukraine Vadim Gutzeit with a call not to dismiss Russian woman Olga Abramova, who took Ukrainian citizenship, from the national team. On Wednesday, Russian biathletes Ekaterina Bekh, Oksana Moskalenko and Olga Abramova, who at one time sports citizenship to Ukrainian, were dismissed by the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ukraine from the national team. Failure to meet the criteria for getting into the squad was cited as the reason. «Olga Abramova took Ukrainian citizenship ten years ago. Since then, she has devotedly worked for the glory of national sports. Victories and prizes at the World Cup and IBU Cup, summer world championships and European championships We repeatedly raised the flag of Ukraine in honor of the considerable sporting achievements of Ukrainian Olga Abramova,» the text of the letter published on the website biathlon.com.ua reads.
