Shakhtar Donetsk will no longer permit Russia's trendy attacks on Ukraine to "destroy morale" before Tuesday's Champions League match with Real Madrid, says train Igor Jovicevic.
Monday's missile moves on towns across Ukraine, which includes the capital, Kyiv, marked the most sizable assaults in months.
Fourteen people had been killed, with a further ninety seven injured.
"You cannot spoil us," stated Jovicevic.
"Our spirit, our team spirit. You can temporarily damage the mood. But you can not wreck us.
"Together we're more potent. And we as sportsmen understand it as a social obligation. We have to be near to what is happening in Ukraine, and we've got first-rate empathy."
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Shakhtar will take on Real in Warsaw, Poland, wherein they are website hosting their Champions League Group F suits.
On Monday, explosions had been said in Lviv, which is a brief base for the club at some stage in the war.
"Many of my gamers have their households in Ukraine, and it affects us. But it might not damage our morale, and we will combat as all of the militia [of Ukraine] combat for us and our freedom," Jovicevic added.
"We are involved approximately this situation now. But still, the sport will not be cancelled. We must go out and display that we fight for each different. And that we constitute the Ukrainian people day after today."
Shakhtar have been crushed 2-1 by Real last week within the Spanish capital, however are 2d in Group F in the back of the La Liga aspect, above RB Leipzig and Celtic.
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