Poland ace Matty Cash has opened up on his heartache at the awful scenes in Ukraine.
The Aston Villa defender qualifies for Czeslaw Michniewicz’s squad thanks to his Polish mum but his family ties stretch even further east into their war-torn neighbour.
His grandfather Ryszard Tomaszewski was born in 1936 in the city of Stanislawow, which was then part of the second Polish republic but now lies within Ukraine’s borders.