Former Dynamo Kyiv forward Oleg Salenko talks about the war and the leader of the terrorist country Russia.
Oleg Salenko“The beginning of the war found me visiting a friend. Soon a curfew was announced for a day and a half. All this time without information, without listening to anything, except for the falling bombs. Then, on February 28, I walked around Kyiv and it was empty. Then the shops closed. They also announced a "dry law", I don't understand why. After all, people went crazy from stress anyway. People didn't know what was happening. Many were left without work. In short, the first month and a half was very hard. But when our troops began to liberate the territories around Kyiv, everything began to come to life.
Life has completely changed. Now she is completely devoid of peace. I saw how people, children die. I play football with friends who have lost their children. But I'm not afraid of anything. I was in Kyiv all the time and I was not afraid, because I had already lived my life. If a bomb falls, then so be it. We must live and not think about such things.
A month and a half after the start of the war, we began to go to the front, to the most destroyed places: Vasilkov, Borodianka, Gostomel near Kyiv. These cities were simply shot. Around the "high-rise" just without the upper floors. I can't imagine where the people who lived there are? What is it like for them now?
In Fastov, a month ago, we went to the cemetery after football, and at that moment they brought there to bury just boys who died at the front - all of them are 21 years old, 23 ...
We help where we can. We play charity matches, although this is more difficult in winter. We collect money, buy medicines, body armor. We visit military hospitals to support our wounded soldiers and give them what they need: clothes, suits. Yes, just everything that is possible to give. Psychologically, we also help as much as we can. In hospitals, young people without legs, without arms. It is unbearable to look at it... And one young military man, barely waking up from anesthesia, said: "Put me on something, and I will return to the battlefield." He lost his leg...
Putin? He has been in power for 20 years. It simply cannot be so. Even for purely psychological reasons. And this madness brought him to Ukraine. He's gone crazy! If I were given such power for such a period, I would also go crazy. This is what is happening to Putin now, and he is no longer able to hide it, ”Salenko quotes Relevo.
