A man who recently visited Odesa recalled how a soldier at a checkpoint asked if he knew Everton's Vitalii Mykolenko.
Kiron Reid said the Ukrainian solider thanked him for the United Kingdom's support after asking him if he knew the Everton left back. Mr Reid, who was previously a member of Liverpool City Council and a law lecturer at The University of Liverpool, spoke to the ECHO from Serbia after returning from a trip to Ukraine.
He said he had travelled across the war-torn country to see friends and visit several volunteer projects. Mr Reid reached the port city of Odesa, twinned with Liverpool, at the end of November. The 51-year-old said the power was out in Odesa when he arrived.
