Andriy Yarmolenko has admitted that playing on through the war in Ukraine is the only way he can stop himself going ‘crazy’ at the thought of his family being shelled by Russian forces.
Speaking publicly for the first time since the invasion of his homeland last month, West Ham forward Yarmolenko, 32, revealed his anguish at having sent his family back to Kyiv for a medical appointment a day before the tanks rolled in.
‘When it all started, on February 24, I arrived at training and couldn’t even talk,’ Yarmolenko told Ukrainian YouTube channel Football 1/2/3.