The goalkeeper of the youth team of Shakhtar Donetsk Volodymyr Segeda decided to suspend his football career and join the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The 18-year-old football player is already being trained for service in one of the training centers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Terrikon reports.. com. Szegeda is a native of Luhansk. After the start of the war in 2014, he moved with his family to Sumy, trained at Bars Sumy, and then at UFC Dnepr, where he managed to attract the attention of Shakhtar. At the Pitmen's academy, Vladimir was involved in the U-19 team. After the start of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine, the guy, along with the youth team of Shakhtar, was evacuated to Croatia. However, he soon decided to return to Ukraine to join the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.. " I just can't just sit there when my country is at war.. I never thought about becoming a military man, but now my Motherland needs it. Playing football is the dream of my life, and I do not refuse it. After the victory, I would like to return to football," Earlier it was reported that former Shakhtar footballer Mikhail Kostenko went missing near Bakhmut.