Basketball Professional Niels Giffey of the Lithuanian top club Zalgiris Kaunas feels the fear of people in the capital of Lithuania in view of the local proximity to Ukraine war.
"People here are generally very Russian critical and you realize that there are still big scars from the time of the Soviet Union. People are busy with the topic and the fear is great, because you border here directly to Belarus," said the 30 Years of the "Tagesspiegel" (Thursday) in front of the duel against his former club Alba Berlin in the Euroleague in the evening (20:00 o'clock / magenta Basketball Professional).
"People are not in panic, but many say:" Such a luck that we are in NATO "- and even before the Russian invasion of Ukraine."
Giffey, who had changed to Kaunas last summer, welcomes the recommendation, Russian and Belarusian athletes and teams from the Basketball Professional in view of the war. "Basketball Professionals and cultural events are occasions to bring together people from different countries. But at the present time it is the right decision not to be in one place with the Russian clubs," said the nephew of Berlin's ruling mayor Franziska Giffey. "We can not pronounce such sanctions in the EU and then continue to deal with Russia at a Basketball Professionaly level."
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