Biathlete Erik Lesser continues his solidarity action on Instagram after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
After the former world champion initially gave up his channel to his Ukrainian biathlon colleague Anastasiya Merkuschina for 24 hours, Ukrainian tennis pro Sergey Stachovsky now shares photos.
"This is my Kyiv.
As you can see, these are not military buildings.
Russian rockets are killing civilians here," wrote the 36-year-old to a picture of a destroyed skyscraper and demanded: "Bring your soldiers home." Stachowski had played at the Australian Open a few weeks ago, but traveled to his home country and after the invasion now engaged in Kyiv.
Unfollow 10,000 followers from Russia
Lesser wants to use his reach "so that more people in Russia get real news".
Because of an aid campaign for his Russian colleague Eduard Latypow in January, around 30,000 fans from the largest country in the world followed him.
After his action, around 10,000 followed him.
He received negative comments from some.
Among other things, it was said that he should not spread fake news
Nevertheless, the Thuringian, who ended his career after the season, gained many new followers from all over the world.
If it was a good 117,000 last Saturday, it's already 157,000.
The 33-year-old had announced that he would continue to make his Instagram channel available to Ukrainian athletes.