Paralympics medallist Sharad Kumar worried about his coach in Ukraine | Off the field News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Tokyo Paralympics bronze-medallist Sharad Kumar is monitoring developments referring to the Russian military operation in Ukraine as he’s anxious in regards to the security of his coach Nikitin Yevhen there.
Yevhen is predicated in Kharkiv, the second largest metropolis of Ukraine and round 500km from capital Kyiv.
“Simply spoke to my coach in Ukraine Kharkiv, he’s anxious, he can hear bombing from his room, he’s planning to maneuver to his storage underground,” Kumar tweeted.

Kumar had educated in Kharkiv below Yevhen for greater than 4 years earlier than profitable a excessive soar bronze in Tokyo Paralympics final yr.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday introduced the launch of a army operation in jap Ukraine.
Yevhen was earlier in India as a Sports activities Authority of India coach.
Sharad, who hails from Bihar and suffered a paralysis in his left leg because of spurious polio medicine throughout a neighborhood eradication drive, is a double Asian Para Video games (2014 and 2018) excessive soar champion and world silver medallist (2019).
He’s included within the sports activities ministry’s Goal Olympic Podium scheme.