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Manchester City footballer Oleksandr Zinchenko has expressed his anger at former team-mates in Russia who are reluctant to speak out against their country’s atrocities in Ukraine.
Defender Zinchenko, 25, played for the Russian club Ufa for a season-and-a-half before he signed for City in the summer of 2016.
But he feels let down by friends over there who haven’t condemned Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion of his homeland.
‘I have friends over there, a small circle, but now it has reduced almost to nothing,’ Zinchenko told The Guardian.
‘I’m so disappointed. The guys I know called me as soon as the invasion happened, texting me: “I’m so sorry, Alex, but we can’t do anything.”
‘Of course you can. If you stay silent it means you support what is happening in Ukraine right now, and I can’t see why they would.
‘Maybe they are scared, because we see pictures on social media of Russians being taken to prison if they protest.
Manchester City’s Ukrainian defender Oleksandr Zinchenko has hit out at former team-mates at Russian club Ufa who have refused to speak out about the war in his homeland
Manchester City fans have offered their support to Zinchenko amid the bloody conflict
Russia’s invasion has brought death and destruction to Zinchenko’s Ukrainian homeland
‘But look at footballers in particular, or anyone with a massive audience.
‘Can you believe that, if all of them posted something on Instagram at the same time saying: “Guys, we are against the war, we need to stop it,” they would all be arrested?
‘Of course they would not. And it’s such a shame that they say nothing.’
Zinchenko hails from the town of Radomyshl, a two hour drive west of the capital Kyiv, and says he heard stories of Russian troops ‘hiding in the woods, trying to find civilians in their cars, kill them and take everything they had.’
Russian forces have now withdrawn from the region around Kyiv having failed in their objective to take the capital and depose the government led by…
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