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Manchester City left-back Oleksandr Zinchenko admits he is at a loss to explain why most of Russia’s footballers have kept quiet over their country’s brutal invasion of Ukraine.
Zenit St Petersburg goalkeeper Stanislav Kritsyuk broke the silence from Russian footballers to say his team-mates can no longer hide behind ‘separating politics and sport’.
Russia captain Artem Dzyuba, on the other hand, described war as a ‘frightful thing’ in a statement on Instagram and spoke of his pride in his nationality, but hit back at Ukrainian footballers ‘who sit on their a** in mansions in England’ for criticism of him.
But in an interview with Gary Lineker conducted earlier this week, Ukraine international Zinchenko blasted Russian footballers for not speaking up on the invasion.
‘I was surprised that no one from all of them,’ Zinchenko told BBC Sport’s Football Focus.
‘Most of them play in the national team, and they have a lot of followers on Instagram and Facebook, at least they can say.
‘They have positions but they just ignore it, I don’t know why.’
The comments come after the CEO of Ukrainian football club Shakhtar Donetsk told the Russian football community that they are ‘guilty and responsible’ if they refuse to speak out against the devastating invasion of the country.
Oleksandr Zinchenko admits he is at a loss to explain why most of Russia’s footballers have kept quiet over their country’s brutal invasion of Ukraine
The majority of Russian players, including most from the national team, have remained silent following Vladimir Putin’s order to invade
The club confirmed that one of their youth coaches has been killed in the fighting after being struck by a fragment of a Russian bullet, but no further details around where or when the tragic incident took place were given.
And now, Serhiy Palkin has taken to social media to urge Russians to avoid becoming ‘outcasts’ and to stand up against their ‘bloody regime’.
‘You are becoming an outcast,’ his post on
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