MOSCOW, Feb 26 the evacuation of legionnaires from Kyiv, said the general director of the football club Sergey Palkin. Earlier, the Brazilian players of the Ukrainian clubs Shakhtar and Dynamo (Kyiv) through the Instagram of the striker of the Donetsk club David Neres turned to the Brazilian government with a request to help them leave the country. In addition to Neres, Shakhtar players Pedrinho, Vitao, Dodo, Marcos Antonio, Marlon, Fernando, Maicon, as well as Dynamo midfielders Uruguayan Carlos de Pena and Brazilian Vitinho took part in the recording of the appeal. «Regarding the situation at the club. I am in Kyiv «Most of the players and coaches with their families are in Kyiv. We are trying to find options for how to evacuate our foreigners and their families. As far as I know, Solomon and Tete are already outside of Ukraine. Club employees are at home, in bomb shelters, basements, in the subway «Where it's safer. If possible, families are evacuated. According to reports, there are no casualties among employees and their families. We try to maintain communications inside, exchange information, support each other,» Shakhtar's website quotes Palkin.24 February, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided on a special military operation of the Russian Federation to demilitarize Ukraine. In a televised address to the Russians, he said that the circumstances «require decisive and immediate action from us, the people's republics of Donbass turned to Russia with a request for help.» On February 21, Putin signed decrees recognizing the sovereignty of the LPR and the DPR.
