The player's family fled to safe cities.
Defender of the Ukrainian national basketball team Ilya Sidorov told how his family survived the shelling of the Russians in Kharkov . "My whole family saw the beginning of the war in Kharkiv. It was terrible. The first 10 days we sat in the basement, when we realized that the situation was only getting worse, we decided to go somewhere. Now everyone is in conditional security. Father and brother in Ukraine, now in Kyiv. A mother with two grandmothers and a dog traveled an unrealistic way from the Dnieper, where they stayed for another 2 weeks after leaving Kharkiv, and then went to Slovakia by car, "Sidorov was quoted as saying by the FBU press service. We will remind, on February 24 the president of the Russian Federation Putin made the urgent statement on carrying out special military operation on the territory of Ukraine, launching a large-scale invasion of Ukrainian cities.
Ukrainian troops continue to counterattack in the Kharkiv region and try to push the occupiers to the border.
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