Andriy Yarmolenko 's boyhood club in Ukraine have had their stadium left in ruins as a result of Russian shelling.
The West Ham United star began his professional career with Desna Chernihiv, having grown up there after his parents left Leningrad. Yarmolenko's old club have posted images of the destruction, with the Yuri Gagarin Stadium being reduced to rubble by the latest round of attacks amid the ongoing war.
A 12,000-seater ground, it was built under the Soviet regime in 1936. Pictures show the stands torn apart and the pitch turned from a surface fit for the Ukrainian Premier League side into one full of craters. But in a defiant message, Desna wrote on Instagram : "We will rebuild all this, and we will only become stronger, and you, 'friendly neighbours' will live with it all your life! Together to victory! The Ukrainian people are a united front, this is our Earth!"
