For most of Serge Baltacha’s life, he’s counted the neighbours to the north of his Ukrainian homeland like brothers. Not any more.
They shared dressing rooms, toasted victories and won medals together competing under a Soviet banner.
But now when the former St Johnstone and Inverness Caley Thistle legend looks at the images of Russia and the devastation they have brought in his home town of Mariupol, he struggles to comprehend what they have become.