“It makes these stressful days a little more better,” when he sees the worldwide care for Ukraine. “It makes me believe that we, as a society, can survive through this.”
Former Utah Jazz center Kyrylo Fesenko, of the Ukraine, warms up before facing the Denver Nuggets in the first quarter of Game 6 of the teams' first-round Western Conference playoff series on Wednesday, April 28, 2010, in Denver. As the Russian attacks on his home country continue, Fesenko's concerns for his family's safety have grown.• This story is available to Salt Lake Tribune subscribers only. Thank you for supporting local journalism.
The pinnacle of his career came in 2010. Thanks to starting center Mehmet Okur’s Achilles tear, Fesenko actually started nine playoff games that season, and did a surprisingly decent job. His reported 9-foot-5 standing reach made him an effective rim-protecting center against some lineups, and while his offensive moves weren’t balletic, they did sometimes lead to two points.
This season, he’s been playing in Tehran, Iran, and that’s where Fesenko, now 35, and his wife are watching Ukraininan developments from. While Fesenko’s still in the midst of the Iranian season he says that he’s charging his phone multiple times per day, to make sure he can constantly keep up with new developments in his hometown of Dnipro and across the country.
“The level of frustration and hatred in my heart right now is too high. From being civil and reasonable human being I am, I cannot speak with Russian people at this moment right now,” Fesenko said. “I am a pacifist in my heart. But I want one person to suffer. I want one person to suffer the most. I want one person to suffer all these deaths of children, women, soldiers of my country. I’ve never wished bad or I’ve never wished ill on another human creature. But right now, I am so full of hate that there is only one thing for me to keep my sanity. I’m focused on one person and I hate him from the depth of my heart.
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