“Sometimes they hit Kiev”
“There is no hostilities (in Irpin), everything is normal, but nobody knows … Sometimes (the Russians) launch missiles that can still hit and if you watch the news, you can see are that sometimes they hit in Kiev and in different cities in our country.
“Sometimes they can just attack a normal civilian home, where people are just living, sleeping, doing their jobs, where there’s no military activity and it’s not a military facility,” he said. There are only peaceful cities where people just live.”
Amosov pulled out of a proposed title fight with Britain’s Michael Page scheduled for 13 May last year in order to continue his military service, which allowed Storli to go ahead. He defeated Page by split decision to win the interim title.
Amosov and Storly will now face off in Dublin for the second time with the undisputed title, and the Ukrainian says his layoff from MMA while fighting for his country will not affect him.
“If I had been around 20, it might have made a difference had I not struggled for a year,” he said.
“But now I am 29 years old and I have fought a lot in different competitions and gained a lot of experience and now it will not be a problem for me.”