The head coach of the Ukrainian national team Oleksandr Petrakov commented on the upcoming match between the Blue-and-Yellows and Scotland in the playoffs for the 2022 World Cup qualifiers.

In connection with the full-scale invasion of Russian troops into Ukraine, the meeting, which was scheduled for March 24 at the Hampden Park stadium in Glasgow, was postponed to June.

" Wherever I just didn’t go, for groceries, to the guys at checkpoints, and I see that people have become united.

Breaking up apartment buildings, killing kids, I don't even know how to talk about it..

My mother was in occupation under the Germans, she told me a lot, but what the Russians are doing now, " It's been a month and I still don't understand how it happened..

I am constantly in touch with the players of the national team. Including with our legionnaires. For them, football also faded into the background.. It's the end of March, we still have April and May. We will also see the date on which our match with Scotland will be scheduled.. There should still be the League of Nations, there is a calendar. I don't know what will happen. As long as there is no time for football in general, people are dying,"