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'They killed our children and raped our woman and girls... If you stay silent you support this': Man City star Oleksandr Zinchenko hits out at former team-mates at Russian club Ufa who refuse to speak out against their country's brutal invasion of Ukraine

Manchester City star Oleksandr Zinchenko has expressed his anger at former team-mates in Russia who are reluctant to speak out against their country's atrocities in Ukraine.

Defender Zinchenko, 25, played for the Russian club Ufa for a season-and-a-half before he signed for City in the summer of 2016.

But he feels let down by friends over there who haven't condemned Vladimir Putin's brutal invasion of his homeland.

Manchester City's Ukrainian defender Oleksandr Zinchenko has hit out at former team-mates at Russian club Ufa who have refused to speak out about the war in his homeland
Manchester City fans have offered their support to Zinchenko amid the bloody conflict
Russia's invasion has brought death and destruction to Zinchenko's Ukrainian homeland

'I have friends over there, a small circle, but now it has reduced almost to nothing,' Zinchenko told The Guardian.