Walk past: The Ukrainian gymnast said she would never give up the Russian language.

Ukrainian gymnast Vlada Nikolchenko said she would never give up the Russian language. She wrote about this in her Instagram account*.

So the athlete responded to the haters pestering her.

She noted that she does not understand those who have been dispersing "this scandal for so many years."

"Allegedly, those who speak Russian are not people at all, they should be thrown out of the country altogether, deprived of citizenship. I speak Ukrainian very well, as well as Russian. I don't care what language to speak. The problem is that by forcibly switching to the Ukrainian MOU, you yourself discourage the desire to switch to any MOU. Do you understand that?! You write to me, what kind of person I am, what a horror, what a nightmare. Should I forget the language I've been speaking all my life? No!", — writes Nikolchenko.

To those who adhere to a different position, she suggested simply "passing by."

*Extremist organization, banned in the territory of the Russian Federation