Former striker tells Donald McRae about visiting hospitals in his homeland, his push to raise funds and his Champions League hopes for Milan
at Euro 2020, pauses as he reflects on a simple encounter where he kicked a football back and forth in hospital with the six-year-old.
Andriy Shevchenko with Maryna, the first child in Ukraine to receive a prosthetic limb after her leg was blown off by a Russian missile.“I saw a lot of kids in the paediatric hospital and many of them were in a very difficult condition. The next day I went to another hospital where I met soldiers, who are really just boys of 18 or 19, and they have no legs, no arms.”
Shevchenko’s words carry even more weight after the latest wave of bombing across Ukraine. In the early hours of Fridaymore than 20 cruise missiles and two drones at Kyiv and other cities. The haunting sound of air raid sirens echoed around a darkened Kyiv for the first time since early March. There are reports of at least 25 more deaths and of children being rescued from the rubble of their destroyed homes.
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