“I don’t want to participate when in my country people die,” [she said].

The 24-year-old skier is refusing to ski in Friday’s slalom, her third and best event at the Sochi Olympics.

Matsotska says Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych “has to be jailed, and for a long time … for all the lives that he took.”

She says “I hope that I will be heard by the world.”