Oleksandr Kucherenko (midfielder, Inhulets Petrove)
When Russia invaded I knew I could not stay still. On 23 February our team had flown back into Kyiv from a training camp. I began to work with volunteer organisations in Lutsk, where I lived with my family, and twice took groups from Kyiv to the Polish border by car. Nothing felt safe: I arranged for my wife, children and mother-in-law to travel to the Czech Republic and then asked myself what I could do next. I have never held a gun, so decided to immerse myself in volunteering.
