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Tom Victor

Ukrainian footballer opens up after apartment is shelled and teammate is killed in war

Ukrainian footballer Evgeniy Budnik has admitted "my mind is not here" after being stranded in Turkey while a number of his family members remain in his home country.

Budnik and his teammates left for a mid-season training camp in Antalya, only for war to break out while they were there, meaning the players have been unable to return.

However, a number of the forward's family members are in Lviv, in the west of Ukraine, and a member of the club's youth team was among those killed as fighting broke out after the Russian invasion in February.

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