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V4 Divided on Georgian Elections: Poland Condemns, Hungary Backs, Czechia and Slovakia Stay Silent
29 October 2024
15 July 2022
The final story is of Iryna Sanina, a star goalkeeper of the Ukrainian Women’s National team and the ‘Kolos’ FCW in the Kyiv region. She recounts how she escaped Irpin at the beginning of the war.
Iryna Sanina is a star goalkeeper of the Ukrainian Women’s National team and the ‘Kolos’ FCW in the Kyiv region. Iryna shares her first-hand account of the war in Irpin. This city was one of the first to be occupied on 24 February and how she managed to leave the city with her family, about new life abroad and post-war women’s football prospects in Ukraine.
Iryna, since the spring of 2021, there has been news that Russian troops are gathering near our borders. All this was presented under the guise of ‘military drills.’ But this year, American/British intelligence began to give specific dates for the invasion, for example, on 16 February, when President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced a Day of Unity. Did you believe then that Russia would attack? Did you expect a war of such scale?