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" On February 24, I spent the night at home, and at five in the morning the phone rang - I was informed that the Russians had begun to bomb our cities, in particular Kyiv.

I immediately went to the hotel where the team spent the night. Together with the management, we got together, talked and decided to temporarily disband the team. All the players have gone to where their families are. Until February 24, the Veres club has fully paid off the players and the coaching staff. No salary arrears. As for the future, we were told: while the war is going on, we will all receive symbolic salaries..

We don't have central training yet.. As I said, the whole team has left, and each player maintains physical fitness individually, as conditions permit.. And the conditions, as you might guess, do not always allow.

I know that almost all the players who are now in Rivne are doing a specific job: they are unloading humanitarian aid coming from the West. It's right not to football now.

Me and my family in Lviv. Here is my home. Football in Ukraine will recover, like the whole country. Do not doubt. It will be hard at first, even very. But gradually everything will be restored. We will be reborn like a phoenix," net.

Recall that Shakhtar Donetsk organized the evacuation of 85 underage players of the club academy from Ukraine to Croatia.