Ukrainian national team midfielder Viktor Kovalenko, who was diagnosed with coronavirus, returned to Ukraine on a UAF charter flight.

Senior manager Alexey Targonsky told about the players' return.

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First, it was necessary to wait for the permission of the local authorities for the infected persons to leave the territory of Germany.. On the day of the game, November 14, a representative of the local authorities of Leipzig said that the permission had been received, and the guys should leave the country by the next Monday..

The Ukrainian Football Association immediately ordered a 180-seat Embraer aircraft, which, in compliance with the medical protocol, was ready to transport the collections to Kiev.

At the same time, English West Ham contacted us, who said that he was taking on the organization of the delivery of his player, Andrey Yarmolenko, directly to London. Yarmolenko, by the way, flew to London this morning, as did Shakhtar's representative Viktor Kovalenko on a charter organized by the UAF to Kiev.

Together with Viktor, three Dynamo players were supposed to fly - Viktor Tsygankov, Sergey Sidorchuk and Vadim Komardin. We planned to fly out on Sunday morning so that the guys could calmly watch the Germany-Ukraine match in their hotel rooms, and not go to the airport late at night, as actually happened. There was not a single need to urgently evacuate Dynamo on Saturday night, "

Earlier it was reported that the head coach of the national team Andriy Shevchenko brought three players of the youth squad to the camp of the team.