yulia levchenko. iryna gerashchenko shared third place with australian eleonor paterson. the athlete notes that she received a lot of support from ukrainian defenders. and this was a strong incentive to go to the goal. let me remind you that the summer olympic games will last until august 11. as of today, ukrainian athletes have won seven medals. awarded, when i received the medal, i realized what we have done as a team. we did indeed. big a holiday for myself, for our country, for our defenders, i received hundreds of messages, really our defenders, i, for which i am very grateful, because they wrote to me that i lifted their spirits, and these are crazy emotions, and the olympic games, they are not like anything else, this is really a holiday of sports, we hope that this is a holiday of peace, which will unite people, show that wars are bad, that it is necessary to... separate all the bad people from it and leave only the worthy ones. mass attacks on military vehicles, almost every night, unknown people destroy the cars of military personnel in various cities of ukraine

we present a series of short stories about ukrainian athletes and today on our air about yulia levchenko, ukrainian athlete and finalist of the olympic games. let's watch together. my name is yuliya levchenko, i am an athlete, i specialize in high jump. i am... a world cup star and an olympic finalist, and i also won the youth olympic games. i was born in the city of bakhmut and i really dreamed of coming there, but now this city no longer exists, i have nowhere to go. for me, the opportunity to be on the international stage, to appear in the uniform of the national team, is a chance to show that the ukrainian team, the country of ukraine. exists that we have the right to speak, we have the right to the life that was available to us before all this terrible thing that began to happen. at the beginning, when a large-scale invasion began, i thought that my sport was all there was to it, i didn't think that i would continue to do sports at all, then after a while with the support of the whole world i managed to return to the tena. before the competition, but of course the first attempts to