Oleksandr Usyk: Boxing world champion shares images from family home in Ukrainian area previously held by Russians

By Matt Foster, CNN

Updated 0908 GMT (1708 HKT) September 14, 2022

Oleksandr Usyk posted pictures of his house on social media along with a location tag for Vorzel, near Bucha.

(CNN)Oleksandr Usyk has shared photos of himself at his family home in Ukraine — the first time the boxing world champion has explicitly posted from Vorzel, near Bucha, since the house was taken by Russian forces earlier this year.

Usyk posted photos of himself in front of the house on his verified Instagram account's story along with a location tag for Vorzel on Tuesday.Usyk posted the photos of his house in an Instagram story.One of Usyk's photos in his Instagram story was with his wife Yekaterina.Yekaterina was also pictured in the backyard of their Vorzel home.The photos show Usyk, 35, standing near a Ukrainian flag outside the fence of the house.In April, Ukrainian news outlet ICTV tweeted images from Usyk's wife Yekaterina's Instagram story which showed the house being destroyed and burned, along with a caption reading, «Russian world! It came to me too! Beasts! They just ruined everything, they were sh*tting as usual!»');$vidEndSlate.removeClass('video__end-slate--inactive').addClass('video__end-slate--active');}};CNN.autoPlayVideoExist = (CNN.autoPlayVideoExist === true)? true: false;var configObj = {thumb: 'none',video: 'sports/2022/03/02/oleksandr-usyk-ukraine-riddell-ovn-intl-intvu-vpx.cnn',width: '100%',height: '100%',section: 'international',profile: 'expansion',network: 'cnn',markupId: 'body-text_15',theoplayer: {allowNativeFullscreen: true},adsection: 'const-article-inpage',frameWidth: '100%',frameHeight: '100%',posterImageOverride: