Two Ukrainian footballers killed according to the Times

“ An official at the Football Federation of Ukraine (FFU) confirmed to The Times that 21-year-old Vitaly Sapylo, who played for the youth team at Ukrainian Premier League side Karpaty Lviv, died defending Kyiv on Friday night after joining the Ukrainian army as a tank commander. Dmytro Martynenko, an amateur player at FC Hostomel in Kyiv’s regional league, was killed when a shell struck his mother’s house near the Hostomel cargo airport. The area had been the site of fierce fighting on Thursday and Friday as Russian forces attempted to capture the strategically important Antonov Airport.”

Posted By: Old Git on March 1st 2022 at 21:21:57

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