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We are players of a football club, FSC Mariupol. We went to an official away game that was supposed to take place in the city of Chernihiv.

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But due to the shelling of the city of Chernihiv, our game was cancelled. It was a bit scary to be in Chernihiv at that time. One hour before the shelling, we were passing the exact spot where the rocket hit.

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We had a game about one kilometre away from that spot. The team was already warming up when the air raid siren started. The whole team went into the locker room.

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And about 5 minutes later there was a very loud explosion. We were sitting in the locker room and heard it. We did not immediately understand what had happened. And then everyone picked up their phones

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and saw that a rocket had hit the drama theatre, and there were dead. Then the team went to the shelter. There was still anxiety. Then it ended, and we were supposed to continue warming up and playing.

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But, as I understand it, the military administration did not allow us to play the match. We packed up and went back to Kyiv. The most frightening, perhaps, were the first days of the war, when I was with my family in Kyiv.

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When you don't understand what is happening, what will happen tomorrow. When you don't know whether you can go out or not. When you go out, go to the grocery store to buy food and see that there is almost no food in the stores anymore.

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Then my family and I packed up and went to our friends in western Ukraine. There were a lot of sad stories. The guys went through such things...

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What we saw and heard in Kyiv was nothing compared to what the guys saw and felt. So we can't compare at all.