Ukraine midfielder Mykhailo Mudryk says he’ll play at Euro 2024 realizing his household is going through Russian missiles “day and night time” in his house metropolis of Krasnograd.
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Mudryk is one among 13 Ukraine gamers who’ve spoken about their house cities being affected by the warfare in a video produced by the nation’s football association., external
Arsenal left-back Oleksandr Zinchenko and Bournemouth defender Ilya Zabarnyi additionally featured within the video.
So too did Dynamo Kyiv striker Mykola Shaparenko, who mentioned his childhood village of Velyka Novosilka “was utterly destroyed by Russia”.
Ukraine’s soccer staff face Romania of their opening match on the European Championship in Germany on Monday (14:00 BST).
Chelsea midfielder Mudryk mentioned: “Because the starting of the full-scale warfare, my metropolis has been bombarded with missiles day and night time.”
He added his dad and mom stay in Krasnograd and “proceed to construct their lives there and all the time consider within the victory of Ukraine”.
Town – additionally the birthplace of Actual Madrid goalkeeper Andriy Lunin – is within the Kharkiv area in east Ukraine.
Ukrainian troops recaptured some on the area with a counter-offensive in 2022.
In Could, the Russian navy began a renewed offensive within the Kharkiv area.
Andriy Shevchenko, the previous Chelsea striker who’s now president of Ukraine’s soccer affiliation (UAF), mentioned: “Our cities want to host the Euros, however now they’re preventing not for the match, however for freedom.
“There isn’t a Ukrainian soccer participant, metropolis, stadium, playground, or youngster untouched by the warfare.”
The UAF added, “soccer, like all sports activities, is just not past politics” and known as on all Euro 2024 international locations “to assist Ukraine”.