The wife of Oleksandria midfielder Serhiy Rybalka Margarita told how the start of a full-scale war between Russia and Ukraine was perceived in their family.
Sergey and Margarita Rybalki (photo: Instagram.com)— I didn't believe that this would happen. Sergei told me that there would be a war. We even quarreled a few days before the start, because he said what would happen, and I said that it was impossible, that Russia could not attack us.
When this happened, they told me to go to my sister in Australia, to Sydney or to friends in the Czech Republic. But I said that if I did go, it would only be to my sister. When I imagined that I would leave Sergey and my parents here and be there myself, I sobbed and said no. And I didn’t go anywhere,” Margarita said on the air of the Anna Rebrova YouTube channel.
