The player's family fled to safe cities.
Defender of the Ukrainian national basketball team Ilya Sidorov said how his family survived the Russian shelling in Kharkiv .
“My whole family saw the beginning of the war in Kharkiv. It was terrible. The first 10 days we were sitting in the basement when we realized that the situation is only getting worse, they decided to go somewhere. Now everyone is in conditional security. Father and brother in Ukraine, now in Kiev. , and then went to Slovakia by car “, – Sidorov was quoted as saying by the FBI press service.
On February 24, Russian President Putin made an urgent statement about a special military operation in Ukraine, launching a large-scale invasion of Ukrainian cities.
Ukrainian troops continue counterattack in Kharkiv region and try to push back the occupiers to the border.
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Earlier a famous Ukrainian athlete showed how they survive in Kharkiv destroyed after the shelling .
