MOSCOW, Sep 20 Vladimir Dubinsky, president of the Ukrainian basketball club Prometheus, said that the team is withdrawn from the upcoming national championship due to a discriminatory financial contribution. «Since August of this year, the Prometheus basketball club, despite all organizational and financial difficulties, began preparing to participate in the upcoming Ukrainian basketball championship. But, unfortunately , even in such a difficult time for our country and the whole sport, the Basketball Federation of Ukraine found those who put their ambitions or personal interests above the common interests of the basketball society.For all clubs participating in the Ukrainian Basketball Championship, an application fee of 40 thousand hryvnias was set, and exclusively for the Prometheus basketball club, this contribution amounted to 4.5 million hryvnia, which is more than 100 times higher than the fee for other clubs,» Dubinsky wrote on his blog. th page on Facebook (the activities of Meta (social networks Facebook and Instagram) are banned in Russia as extremist). Also, the head of Prometheus expressed outrage at the current situation, calling the measures against the club discriminatory. «The Prometheus basketball club will not take part in the 32nd championship of Ukraine in basketball among men's teams in the 2022/23 season, if the Basketball Federation of Ukraine does not eliminate manifestations of bias and discrimination against our club,» Dubinsky said. «Prometheus» is the current champion of Ukraine in basketball.
