“All of us who were in the bunker of a hotel in Kiev managed to get out of there,” wrote Santos a few hours later on the video from the train. The embassy of their South American home country offered them the option of taking the train. The European Football Union UEFA and the Ukrainian Football Association provided an escort to the train station.
The news portal G1 reported that the Brazilians should continue from Czernowitz by bus to Romania. There are other Brazilian footballers in Ukraine who are trying to leave the country with their families in various ways. More than 30 Brazilian players are under contract with Ukrainian top-flight clubs, 12 with Shakhtar Donetsk alone.
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