(Reuters) – Ukrainian Premier League facet Shakhtar Donetsk mentioned their Brazilian players have left the nation safely following the invasion by Russia.
Shakhtar, who’re based mostly within the east of the nation and have greater than a dozen Brazilians in their squad, mentioned the players and their households had arrived in Romania.
Shakhtar added that fellow membership Dynamo Kyiv’s international players had additionally left the nation. Three Brazilians who play for SK Dnipro-1 crossed the border into Romania on Saturday.
“The evacuation of the players was made potential because of the private help of UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin, the Ukrainian Football Association President Andrii Pavelko and the Moldovan Football Federation President Leonid Oleinichenko,” Shakhtar mentioned in a press release https://shakhtar.com/en/information/2022/february/28_news/28_shakhtars-brazilians-left-ukraine.
“We need to thank for the help everybody who took half on this course of.”
Soccer governing our bodies FIFA and UEFA on Monday suspended Russia’s nationwide and membership groups from all competitions till additional discover.
Fierce preventing and Russian bombardment in Ukraine have killed dozens of individuals and sparked a refugee disaster.
Russia calls its actions in Ukraine a “particular operation” that it says is just not designed to occupy territory however to destroy its southern neighbour’s army capabilities and seize what it regards as harmful nationalists.
(Reporting by Shrivathsa Sridhar in Bengaluru; Editing by Peter Rutherford)
