Ukrainian football players appealed to the world community in connection with the invasion of Russian troops in Ukraine.

" To all who are united by the love of football, to every fan, every player, every coach, every manager. To everyone who understands and everyone who is fond of football. We appeal to you to explain to the whole world and show to every inhabitant of planet Earth. That under the guise of a special operation, Russian troops are waging an open war against Ukraine. They launch rocket attacks on residential areas, shell civilians.

We call on everyone who hears us to oppose this war, stop the destruction and bloodshed. We ask the entire global football community to counter Russian propaganda. Show the truth about the war in Ukraine with all possible resources. We are grateful to everyone who has already done this, and to everyone who has already done it.. No war! Glory to Ukraine.

Glory to the heroes,"

The appeal was recorded by Andriy Pyatov, Oleksandr Zinchenko, Mykola Shaparenko, Andriy Yarmolenko, Taras Stepanenko, Serhiy Sidorchuk, Anatoly Trubin, Oleksiy Shevchenko, Georgy Bushchan, Viktor Kovalenko, Ilya Zabarny, Ruslan Malinovsky and Serhiy Kryvtsov.

Recall that on February 24, Russian President Putin made an urgent statement about conducting a special military operation on the territory of Ukraine, launching a large-scale invasion of Ukrainian cities..

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