USYK is arrested in Krakow

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Oleksandr Usyk was arrested at Krakow airport in Poland on Tuesday evening but his manager Serge Lapin and his wife Katerina have indicated that it was apparently a misunderstanding while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Usyk was released after the intervention of the country's Foreign Ministry.