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'Russian football, Russian sport, should be totally isolated': Andriy Yarmolenko restates the need for Vladimir Putin's country to be isolated from the sporting world as he declares Ukraine's invaders a 'country of terrorists'

Ukraine captain Andriy Yarmolenko has called for the complete and continuing isolation of Russia from professional sport after UEFA confirmed the country would be excluded from qualification for Euro 2024.

Speaking on the eve of Wednesday's Nations League match against Scotland at Hampden, the former West Ham star said it should be impossible to consider seeing ‘terrorist’ Russia represented on the field of play while its army killed civilians in his homeland.

Russia has been banned from UEFA and FIFA competitions since it launched its invasion of Ukraine in February, with the Court of Arbitration for Sport dismissing an appeal against that exclusion in July.