Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – Ukraine has announced that it will not participate in the (women’s) World Squash Championship, which is expected to take place in Egypt next December. He attributed the reason for the participation of Egyptian observers in referendums for the annexation of the occupied Ukrainian regions to Russia, according to an official statement.
The Ukrainian squash federation said its withdrawal from the tournament was caused by “Egypt’s support for the bogus” Russian “referendum” in 4 regions announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin for joining the Russian Federation on 30 September.
The Ukrainian Federation’s statement on Saturday said that observers representing the Egyptian government participated in Russian-backed referendums in the Lugansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia and Kherson regions, while the international community condemned them.
The Egyptian government has not stated that it has sent representatives to monitor referendums in areas controlled by Russia and partly loyal to its separatist forces.
The statement indicated that an Egyptian government representative appeared to be supporting a “false referendum organized in conjunction with Vladimir Putin’s murderous annexation of Ukrainian lands.”
“Unfortunately, in this bogus referendum there were representatives of Egypt who claimed (in their view) that the referendum was fair. Therefore, we had to make the decision to cancel the trip,” said Alina Ohonsyan, Vice President of Ukraine. for Squash.
