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Frenchman 'who planned 15 terror attacks targeting Muslims and Jews during Euro 2016 because he was sick of mass migration and spread of Islam' is arrested with weapons haul in Ukraine

06/06/16 18:48

Police announced the arrest of the 25-year-old, identified as Gregoire M., on the day the England team flew into Paris ready for the tournament's kick off on Friday. The 'far-right nationalist', who originally comes from Bar-le-Duc, near Reims, in northeast France, was arrested on Ukraine's border with Poland on May 21st. Ukraine police said he had massed a 'vast arsenal' including five Kalashnikov assault rifles, two anti-tank grenade launchers, 5000 rounds of ammunition and 125kg of TNT explosives. They said he aimed 'to blow up a Muslim mosque, a Jewish synagogue, tax collection organisations, police patrol units and numerous other locations'. Ukraine's SBU security service said it had been watching the suspect since December last year. ...read

Shocking moment a journalist repeatedly punches a political pundit after he makes a comment about his son on TV talk show

01/06/16 01:11

The unbelievable incident, which occurred while the Process talk show was being filmed in a studio in the Russian capital of Moscow, saw the journalist leave the Ukrainian political pundit bleeding.

Now THAT's a catwalk! Rare felines including a dwarf 'tiger' and a hairless sphynx are dressed in bizarre costumes for annual show in Kiev

30/05/16 03:19

The adorable moggies wore their sequin-clad costumes for the Royal Feline show in Kiev, which saw some of the rarest cats come together. They included the rare dwarf 'toyger' cat.

Watch the 'secret video' that proves Dami Im WAS robbed at Eurovision as film shows Ukraine's contestant belting out her winning song more than a year ago - a blatant breach of competition rules?

22/05/16 14:20

Secret footage of Eurovision 2016 winner Jamala has emerged, showing the woman performing her song in Ukrainian at a concert. This could be in direct breach of the rules.

Passenger plane tipped BACKWARDS after blundering baggage handlers unloaded the cargo from the front first

19/05/16 15:29

Passengers were still on board the Ukraine International Airlines plane from Kiev to Tel Aviv when the alarms began to sound and the nose lifted upwards.

Is this the world's biggest Eurovision fan? Video of man's hilariously breathless reaction to the song contest's final countdown on TV shows he REALLY wanted Dami Im to win

16/05/16 22:51

David Labuschagne, from Scarborough, North Yorkshire in the UK, was backing Australia's Dami Im to win the Eurovision Song Contest grand final on Saturday (Sunday morning local time).

The most damning evidence yet that Flight MH17 was shot down by Russian BUK launcher as new satellite image shows it heading towards launch site five hours before plane was destroyed

16/05/16 19:46

New satellite images have placed the Russian Buk missile defence system used to down MH17 near the Ukrainian town where the jet was shot down - just five hours before it occurred.

The day Eurovision REALLY went political: Ukraine defeats Russia with a controversial ballad about Crimean annexation - pipping late favourites Australia to the post in the show's most gripping climax yet

16/05/16 02:19

Singer Jamala triumphed over Russia's Sergey Lazarev and Australia's Dami Im at the last second with her song 1944 - which is reportedly about Stalin, Crimea and claims of ethnic cleansing.

Stolen masterpieces snatched from Italian museum are recovered in the Ukraine after crooks sent them there by post

12/05/16 11:33

The 17 rare paintings that were snatched from Verona's Castelvecchio last November have been discovered by Ukrainian border guards in plastic bags on a small island on the Dniester River.

'Blood oozed through the soil at grave sites. You could see the pits move, some of them were still alive': The secrets of Ukraine's shameful 'Holocaust of Bullets' killing centre where 1.6million Jews were executed

06/05/16 16:44

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Around 2,000 mass graves of Jewish men, women and children murdered in Ukraine during the Second World War have been found, but 6,000 are undiscovered.

Terrifying moment Ukrainian TV news team is shot in the street during mass brawl with local thugs

05/05/16 13:34

The TV news team was filming a seemingly innocent report on a road accident in the city of Odessa in south-western Ukraine's Odessa Oblast region when a man opened fire.

Is THIS the Russian missile launcher that shot down MH17? Report claims to have identified weapon – and says it DID come from Putin's anti-aircraft brigade

04/05/16 08:23

A team from Bellingcat arrived at their findings after comparing features on a BUK missile launcher seen in rebel-held Ukraine on the day the jet was shot down with images of Russian weapons.

Europe could let 127 million Turks and Ukrainians disappear forever as it scraps visas - but has no way of tracking 'tourists' who never leave

04/05/16 08:07

The EU will be unable to fully track the 127 million people from Turkey, Ukraine, Kosovo and Georgia travelling to Europe because not all countries have a computerised visa system.

They deserve a medal! Former Olympic wrestling champion fights off SEVEN police officers who hit him with batons and pepper spray after he was stopped for drink driving

29/04/16 19:20

Vyacheslav Oliynyk, who won a gold medal for Ukraine in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, shrugged off batons and pepper spray as officers tried to restrain him in Kiev, Ukraine.

Australian street artist creates huge mural inside an abandoned reactor in the Chernobyl disaster zone 30 years after the explosion killed 31 people

27/04/16 09:18

Brisbane-based Guido van Helton has created the first artwork inside Reactor 5 in Ukraine's Chernobyl disaster zone to mark the 30th anniversary of the infamous disaster.

EXCLUSIVE - 'The secret hero of Chernobyl': Nuclear scientist who saved thousands of lives stopping radioactive waste seeping into rivers reveals he's got prostate cancer 'as a result of radiation'

27/04/16 01:47

Nuclear scientist Giorgii Lysychenko joined 600,000 military men and women to clean up the radioactive debris following the explosion of the Ukrainian power plant on April 26 1986.

Return to Chernobyl: 30 years after they fled deadly radiation leak, haunting pictures show evacuees revisiting their homes and the places where they grew up

27/04/16 00:13

Haunting pictures show people revisiting their homes and places of work in the Ukrainian city of Prypyat, which was evacuated in April 1986 following a botched test at the nuclear plant nearby.

'Suicide squad' who risk their lives at Chernobyl EVERY DAY by trying to seal in killer radiation at nuclear disaster site

26/04/16 21:16

The specks on the roof of this giant power station are among the bravest people on earth - or the most foolhardy. Every day they clamber to the roof to try to seal in killer radiation.

Remembering the horrors of Chernobyl 30 years on: Mourners hold a candle-lit vigil and church service in Ukraine for victims of the world's worst nuclear disaster

26/04/16 15:57

Mourners gathered for a service in Slavutych (pictured), a town 30 miles from Chernobyl that was established to house many of those who had to leave their homes for ever.

US flies F-22 fighter jets to Romania in a show of strength against Russia as tensions run high

26/04/16 11:50

Two highly advanced US fighter jets landed at the Mihail Kogalniceanu air base in Romania on Monday. Barack Obama promised in 2014 to bolster the defenses of NATO's eastern members.

Did a Ukrainian fighter jet shoot down MH17? Eye witness accounts claim Boeing 777 may have been targeted by another plane

26/04/16 08:03

New evidence suggests that the downing of the Malaysian Airlines plane MH17 in July 2014 was caused by a shot from a Ukrainian fighter jet rather than a ground-to-air missile.

Is this how the world would look if humans disappeared? Camera traps show animals have reclaimed Chernobyl's radioactive wasteland 30 years after the disaster

20/04/16 18:34

Camera traps show 14 species of mammal (illustrated) are living in the exclusion zone around the site of the Chernobyl disaster in what is now Ukraine and Belarus.

Inside the Chernobyl nuclear dome: Giant construction as high as London's St Paul's Cathedral designed to enclose the Ukrainian reactor and stop further radiation leaking into the environment

18/04/16 16:04

Named the New Safe Confinement, when completed the dome will enclose the damaged Reactor Four in Ukraine and replace the 'sarcophagus' currently built on the nuclear site.

Why you should NEVER wear headphones while crossing a railway track: shocking moment woman is hit by speeding train - and she miraculously survived

13/04/16 10:36

This is the shocking moment a girl was crushed and dragged along by a hide speed train in Yuzhno-Sakhalins, Russia after failing to pay attention at a crossing due to her headphones.

Living with the fallout of Chernobyl 30 years later: Harrowing photographs show children living 40 miles from site of world's worst nuclear disaster and 'still suffering radiation effects'

13/04/16 07:54

Doctors say children born in the areas surrounding the Chernobyl exclusion zone today are still being born with higher rates of immune system deficiencies and heart rhythm disorders.

A victory for the Brexit campaign - and Putin - as Dutch voters reject EU-Ukraine treaty in referendum

07/04/16 15:21

The referendum in Holland had asked citizens to vote on closer political, defence and trade ties between Europe and Ukraine.

What it's REALLY like to visit the Chernobyl disaster site: Happy tourists climb into rusting bumper cars, sit at desks in decaying classrooms and pose in front of the stricken nuclear plant

06/04/16 16:05

Thanks to its eerie ruins, the abandoned Ukrainian city of Pripyat has become a popular attraction for those with a morbid curiosity - but some visitors could be accused of being insensitive.

Dolls fitted with gas masks, a rusting fairground and stray animals wandering empty streets: Eerie pictures show abandoned Soviet town 30 years after Chernobyl disaster

29/03/16 14:56

Images include dolls fitted with gas masks discarded among the rusting beds of a nursery in the town of Pripyat near Ukraine's northern border with Belarus.

Pictured: Ukrainian 23-year-old accused of posing as a high schooler and having sex with an underage girl arrives in shackles for preliminary hearing

25/03/16 13:40

Artur Samarin faces charges of theft, identity theft, conspiracy, tampering with public records, statutory sexual assault and corruption of minors. He appeared in court on Thursday.

Female Ukrainian pilot found guilty of killing two Russian journalists despite calls for her release from both EU and President Obama

21/03/16 11:59

Nadezhda Savchenko, 34, was found guilty of ordering the shelling that killed two Russian journalists and several civilians in Luhansk, eastern Ukraine, in June 2014.

'Are you going to shirtfront Putin while you're there?': Former PM Tony Abbott surfaces in Ukraine as an 'adviser to President Petro Poroshenko'

21/03/16 10:51

As Malcolm Turnbull announces a likely double dissolution election, his predecessor Tony Abbott has turned up in the most unlikely of places - Ukraine.

'Forgive me, forgive me please!': Drunk Ukrainian ex-official cries and rolls around on the floor in anguish after thinking he had hit two children while driving

18/03/16 23:58

A passerby filmed the video of Andrey Zakharash (pictured) rolling around and crying in Kiev after he reportedly believing he had hit the two children while driving near a residential complex in the capital.

Ukraine destroys its largest remaining monument to Vladimir Lenin by tearing down giant statue of Soviet leader

18/03/16 22:16

Standing imposingly in the city of Zaporizhzhya in Ukraine, the 66-ft bronze statue was finally removed by crane after several attempts to pull it down earlier this week.

Fighting like cats and dogs: Ukrainian troops reveal the pets they have adopted on the frontline to boost morale as they wage war

16/03/16 14:35

The animals, which include pets rescued from shelled villages, are being used in Sartana and Donetsk to help boost morale and protect soldiers who are living and fighting in the area.

Dressed to kill: Ukraine's female soldiers pose in ballgowns with the weapons they have used to fight Russian-backed rebels for incredible fashion shoot

11/03/16 13:51

The models - all front line troops in the two year conflict with ethnic Russian forces - were selected for the shoot to show what sort of life they might have led if the war had never happened.

Ukrainian, 23, who posed as a 17-year-old high school student was planning to kill his classmates and wanted to plant a bomb, his adoptive parents claim

10/03/16 21:50

Stephayne and Michael Potts said Artur Samarin - who was known at Harrisburg High School in Pennsylvania as Asher Potts - talked about targeting specific people to blow up.

Female Ukrainian officer shows Russian judges the middle finger and sings her country's national anthem at final hearing of her trial over the death of two journalists

09/03/16 23:59

Nadezhda Savchenko faces 25 years in jail if found guilty of helping to direct the fire of Ukrainian artillery in the Luhansk region in June 2014 which killed the two journalists - an accusation she denies.

They even stole the bathroom tiles! Chandeliers, snooker table and white grand piano looted from crumbling mansion of Ukraine tyrant ...and left just a photo album, karaoke CD and empty vodka bottle

02/03/16 11:17

The crumbling walls are all that is left of the once palatial mansion owned by exiled Ukraine president Viktor Yanukovych's feared enforcer after looters took it over, taking everything with them.

Ukrainian man, 23, caught posing as a high school student says he has no regrets... as his adoptive grandmother says she always had her suspicions

29/02/16 18:00

Artur Samarin, a 23-year-old Ukrainian national, was taken into custody last week for masquerading as an 18-year-old schoolboy at Harrisburg High School in Pennsylvania.

Dramatic moment shopkeeper ran into the path of a speeding car to save a four-year-old boy who had run into the road

29/02/16 15:45

After the youngster wanders into the road in Grushevo, western Ukraine, courageous Ivan Pitukh leaps into action and grabs him just before a car comes crashing into the pair.

American military officials and NATO chiefs snub Russian Armed Forces Day party in Washington amid heightened tensions over Syria and Ukraine

27/02/16 13:18

Representatives from the U.S. military and NATO were due to attend the celebration at the Russian embassy (pictured) on Thursday night, and while they were invited, neither party showed up.

Ukraine taunts Russia by picking a Crimean Tatar whose family was a victim of Stalinist oppression to sing its Eurovision entry

22/02/16 13:24

Jamala, 32, beat other five finalists and will perform at the Eurovision song contest with entry about mass deportation of Tatars under Josif Stalin.

Eerie drone footage shows war-scarred landscape of Debaltseve devastated by fighting in the Ukrainian conflict last year

20/02/16 00:53

Haunting drone footage shows the war-scarred landscape of Debaltseve, in east Ukraine. Fighting raged in the town last year in what was one of the bloodiest clashes of the Ukrainian conflict.

Revealed, the 'drug dealer' bound with tape and whipped with electric cables in ISIS style execution video has been 'disappeared'

16/02/16 14:04

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - The man who was filmed being tortured by Russian rebels has been identified as Aleksey Frumkin (pictured), 42, from Kommunar, south east Ukraine

Is that such a Smart idea? Ukrainian petrolhead converts his small car into a fearsome off-roader

28/01/16 16:13

Gerogiy Kosilov, 29, from the Ukraine, went for a ride in a friend's Smart car when he decided the vehicle's rear-engine configuration would make it ideal for a conversion into a mini 4x4 off-roader.

The world's most dangerous selfie stick: Ukrainian soldiers attach camera to tank's gun barrel and capture incredible footage of themselves out on patrol

27/01/16 13:19

The dangerous selfie stick captured footage of the soldiers on their tank travelling through what is believed to be the Donbass region in eastern Ukraine.

Fred Durst 'banned from Ukraine for five years' following his Russian-loving plea to move to his wife's native Crimea

22/12/15 22:15

The 45-year-old rocker has all but pledged his allegiance to President Vladimir Putin

That's one way to settle an argument: Ukrainian MP is caught on film kicking security chief in the HEAD after heated row escalates out of control during anti-corruption meeting

20/11/15 20:44

It is believed that Vasiliy Pisniy, 52, suggested that he had done more for Ukraine than Deputy Volodymyr Parasyuk, 28, causing the younger man to fly into a rage and lash out.

That was close! Woman narrowly avoids being crushed by a huge falling tree - and appears completely unflustered

31/10/15 17:15

Footage shows a woman walking past bins outside a block of flats in Kiev, Ukraine, before a 50ft tree begins to fall towards her.

Star Wars villain Emperor Palpatine is voted onto Ukrainian city council… and even the stunned councillor who campaigned as a joke asks voters: ‘What’s wrong with you?’

27/10/15 13:39

It is believed that the candidate, who was part of the Darth Vader Block political party, won 54.4 per cent of the poll and has now won a seat on the city council of Odessa in Ukraine.

The police force is strong with this one: Ukrainian officers arrest Chewbacca at political rally where he was campaigning for mayoral candidate Darth Vader

26/10/15 14:00

Hilarious video shows four police officers struggling to handcuff the Wookie warrior in the Ukrainian city of Odessa as the music from the Star Wars films is played.

The Force awakens in Ukraine as statue of Lenin is given a makeover to look like DARTH VADER

24/10/15 21:49

The sculpture of the old leader in the city of Odessa was going to be removed by the government under de-communisation laws, but instead it has gone to the Dark Side.

That's one way to get a lift in the polls: Video of model and mayoral candidate performing a striptease is 'leaked' just before election in Ukraine

21/10/15 19:05

The raunchy two minute-long video shows Valeria Prokopenko (pictured), 21, who wants to become the next mayor of Odessa in south-west Ukraine, stripping down to her underwear.

Diplomatic row erupts between Oxford University and Ukrainian Embassy after new textbooks state Crimea now belongs to Russia

18/10/15 20:43

Oxford University Press came under fire after the new book for pupils aged 11 to 14 said the Crimea, which was annexed by Russian troops last year, is no longer part of Ukraine.

The pattern is full! Ground crew flee in panic as plane flies just a few metres above their heads in Top Gun-style fly-by in Ukraine

18/10/15 06:49

The pilot flies just metres above the heads of the terrified ground crew at a Ukrainian Air Force base, forcing some to duck and run for cover as it comes towards them.

Putting on a brave front: Artist creates WWII-era sexy pin-up calendar using patriotic models to lift spirits of Ukrainian troops fighting pro-Russia rebels

07/10/15 13:24

Using models he met over the internet or simply cartoons designed from scratch, artist Sviatoslav Pashchuk from Kiev spent nine months transforming the girls into 1930s-style pin up models.

Russia moves thermobaric warheads that INCINERATE targets into Ukraine while world's attention is on Syria

02/10/15 16:02

The mobile TOS-1 Buratino weapons system (pictured - equipped with thermobaric warheads - was spotted in Ukraine by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).

Babies taught to shoot guns, forced to survive in hellhole bomb shelters and dumped in dirty orphanages: The harrowing truth of the 'forgotten' children caught in Putin's war with Ukraine

30/09/15 17:32

EXCLUSIVE: MailOnline reveals the suffering of the 'lost generation' of children in eastern Ukraine, an area hit by a vicious war between pro-Russian rebels and the government.

Obama to meet with Putin in New York at the Russian leader's request White House says as it promises tough talk on Syria and the Ukraine

25/09/15 10:21

Obama's spokesman told reporters today that while he doesn't expect the president to display 'overt hostility' toward Putin, 'there's some serious issues' to discuss.

Could the West ACCIDENTALLY start a war with Russia? Warning over aggressive military exercises – as U.S. fears build-up of Putin's forces in Syria could spark conflict

08/09/15 15:00

The European Leadership Network, a group made up of members from both Russia and Europe, has warned that relations are heading towards Cold War levels of hostility following events in Ukraine.

Policeman dies and 100 are injured after grenade explodes outside Ukraine parliament leaving 'pools of blood' as riot police clash with protesters

31/08/15 18:43

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: The grenade blast, in Kiev, Ukraine, knocked officers off their feet and witnesses reported seeing pools of blood on the ground near some of the wounded.

Let’s settle this with tank jousting: Pro-Russia rebels challenge Ukraine government to ultimate showdown to end two-year conflict that has killed 7,000

15/08/15 14:08

Pro-Russian rebels have challenged Ukraine's government to compete in a Tank Biathlon event, to settle the ongoing Ukrainian conflict by pitting their strongest champions against each other.

Shocking pictures from inside neo-Nazi military camp reveal recruits as young as SIX are being taught how to fire weapons (even though there's a ceasefire)

13/08/15 08:20

Extremists from the Azov unit, a far-right militia which is defending Mariupol, eastern Ukraine, are running a week-long summer military camp, to teach children how to survive in conflict.

Was MH17 blown up by an on-board bomb planted by the CIA? Bizarre new theory by Russian security expert who claims jet was downed to frame Moscow-backed rebels

13/08/15 08:03

Sergei Sokolov – head of a shadowy organisation which boasts close ties to the secret services in Moscow – claimed the plane was downed by the CIA and other Western intelligence agencies.

Pictured: British troops training Ukrainian forces as Fallon pledges more help in red hot war against Russian separatists

11/08/15 19:37

Around 75 British military trainers are already in the Ukraine as part of the UK's commitment to helping Kiev defeat 'Russian-inspired terrorism.'

'It's raining bodies': Harrowing new video captures the moment traumatised couple watch MH17 victims fall from the sky as they drive past burning wreckage in Ukraine

20/07/15 17:36

The footage was shot by a couple as they drove past the scene in eastern Ukraine where the Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 was shot down, killing all 298 people on board.

Thousands of HIV patients in Eastern Ukraine will run out of vital antiretroviral medicines unless blockades are lifted

20/07/15 12:28

The medicine crisis is centred on the mostly Russian-speaking Lugansk and Donetsk regions of the country, where separatist rebels have waged a bloody civil war for more than a year.

Police launch manhunt for gunman who shot dead three postal workers and escaped with $115,000 dollars in Ukraine

10/07/15 18:27

Police have already launched a large manhunt for the gunman who targeted the workers in the government-held city of Kharkiv, stealing nearly 2.5 million hryvnas.

An arresting sight: Ukraine hires attractive men and women for its 'reformed' police department and encourages them to take selfies with locals

09/07/15 14:08

Interior Minister Arsen Avakov debuted the 'reformed' police service in Kiev today having replaced 2,000 officers with fresh recruits after they became known for corruption and violence.

Runaway bus races through the streets of Ukraine on FIRE after driver and passengers leap to safety

03/07/15 16:53

Terrified locals dived out of harm's way as the burning vehicle rolled through the city of Lviv in Ukraine's Lviv Oblast region - threatening to set alight everything in its path.

Malaysia demands an international tribunal to prosecute those responsible for shooting down flight MH17 over Ukraine and killing all 298 on board

03/07/15 16:17

Malaysia wants to set up an international tribunal to prosecute those who shot down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 (pictured) over Ukraine in July last year - killing all 298 people on board.

Ostriches once owned by Ukraine's deposed ruler are suffering 'stress-related sexual problems' because so many onlookers are flocking to see them at Yanukovich's former mansion

24/06/15 11:53

The Australian and African ostriches became a symbol of Viktor Yanukovich's shameless opulence after they were discovered by protesters at his mansion in Mezhyhirya, outside Kiev, last year.

Hospital bans father from visiting his newborn child in Ukraine… so he hires a crane to lift him up the second floor window

22/06/15 18:01

A man hired a crane to take him to the second floor window of the hospital in Ukraine, which does not allow husband's to see their wives and babies until they are discharged.

Ukraine 3-0 Luxembourg: Stoke City target Yevhen Konoplyanka scores in qualifier win

19/06/15 13:08

Ukraine had to work hard to crack open a determined Luxembourg defence but three second-half goals secured a 3-0 win at the Lviv Arena in their Euro 2016 Group C qualifier on Sunday.

Yehven Konoplyanka gives potential suitors a nudge as out-of-contract Dnipro winger fires Ukraine to victory against Georgia

09/06/15 22:05

Liverpool, Stoke City and Sevilla target Yehven Konoplyanka gave potential suitors another nudge on Tuesday night as he fired Ukraine to victory against Georgia.

Pretty in pink: Mesmerising hues of Martian-like salt water lake in Ukraine captured in series of stunning photographs

08/06/15 18:27

The memorising hues of the Koyashskoye Salt Lake contrast with extra-terrestrial-looking boulders dotted in its crimson waters, and were captured by Ukrainian photographer Sergey Anashkevych.

Ukraine pushes back largest Russian attack in months as 1,000 ‘pro-Moscow rebels’ supported by tanks lay siege to government-held town

04/06/15 11:46

Ukraine's military said the Russian-backed rebels had tried to advance using tanks and up to 1,000 fighters west of the main rebel stronghold of Donetsk.

How Russia 'faked' two satellite images in attempt to shift blame to Ukraine for MH17: Investigation shows Kremlin altered pictures to show missile launcher missing and on aircraft's flight path

01/06/15 13:05

Russia has been accused of digitally altering two satellite images to pin the blame of downed passenger plane MH17 on Ukrainian forces, it has been claimed.

Heavy armour rolls in: Now convoy of Russian tanks arrive by rail at border with Ukraine days after military trucks and rocket launchers were spotted nearby

27/05/15 11:49

The nine tanks arrived on the back of a freight train at the station in the southern town of Matveev Kurgan on Monday, before being driven along the streets on Tuesday.

Dnipro players dip into their own pockets to help supporters from war-torn Ukraine reach Europa League final

26/05/15 20:39

Dnipro's players were so keen to help supporters travel to their clash against Sevilla in Wednesday's Europa League Final, they had a whipround to provide some cheer for their war-ravaged country.

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