Ukraine War: Bomb Flying Over Everything I Love – Shevchenko

Ukrainian football legend Andriy Shevchenko has admitted in an interview with AFP he cried when he “saw children running through a field strewn with missile craters” in Irpin, a commuter town outside Kyiv which was liberated from Russian control.

The 2004 Ballon D’Or winner said he was overwhelmed by the youngsters’ determination to play football despite the carnage around them.

Shevchenko, 46, the son of “a military man” who despite his upbringing “stood against wars all his life”, was so angry at the Russian invasion in February he “felt such excruciating pain I couldn’t even breathe.”

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“I couldn’t comprehend the fact that bombs are falling and rockets are flying in the centre of democratic Europe now,” he said, speaking this week.

“They fly towards my home, towards everything I love. I had to decide on what I should do to help my country quickly.

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“I thought about everything I’m capable of and where I can be most effective. “And I realised that I have to use the power of my name, to fight for Ukraine publicly.”

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