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The goalkeeper of Shakhtar and the national team of Ukraine Andriy Pyatov harshly criticized the Russian players for their silence about the war in Ukraine.
" See photos from Mariupol, Bucha, Kharkov and other cities and suffer. Children will grow up, they will understand everything, and what their father will tell them? \? " Can not! You are either for the war or against it. I was most surprised that everyone is silent. Nobody peeped. So they are satisfied.
A normal athlete, bearing an undeserved punishment, defends his position. Fighting for truth, for victory! Is it really athletes - these are rags... An attacking and killing country cannot be divided into athletes and non-athletes. As they say: \? Their fellow countrymen do this, and they calmly play football? It doesn't happen. I believe that even after the end of the war, the world will not let them into joint competitions.. There is a zombie league - play there," com.
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..
After that, UEFA excluded Russian clubs from European competitions, and the Russian team was deprived of the right to play in the qualifying play-offs for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
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Earlier it was reported that FIFA did not exclude Russia from the organization.