Ukraine's national team gathered in London to begin preparations for the start of the Euro 2024 qualifying campaign.
Yevhen Konoplyanka (left). Photo: uaf.uaWartime requires specific logistics, so the teams traveled from Ukraine in two groups. The Kyiv Dynamo players and Denys Miroshnichenko from Oleksandriya, along with the administrative and medical staff, left on Sunday evening by train from Kyiv to Przemysl. There they took a bus and traveled another 80 kilometers to Rzeszow Airport. The second group, consisting of the coaching staff and players of Shakhtar and Dnipro-1, who played their matches of the 18th round of the UPL in western Ukraine, arrived there on another bus from Lviv. The same group included Oleksandriya goalkeeper Mykyta Shevchenko.
Yevhen Konoplyanka, who returned to the national team as a player of Krakow, arrived at the airport on his own. The meeting with the teammates was warm - Yevhen had not seen the guys for a long time, and they were also very happy to see one of the most experienced players of the national team.
In this lineup, the blue and yellows took a charter flight to London at 13:30 Kyiv time.
The flight lasted just over two hours. From Stansted Airport, the team headed straight to the Hilton Syon Park Hotel, which will be their London residence for a week.
All the Ukrainian representatives of the English Premier League, as well as players from other championships - Eduard Sobol, Andriy Yarmolenko, Andriy Lunin and Roman Yaremchuk - will arrive at the hotel for lunch. Ruslan Malinowski will arrive from Marseille a little later, at 6 pm.
Tonight, the national team's program includes restorative fitness exercises at the hotel. And tomorrow, the blue and yellows will hold their first training session at FC Brentford.
The composition of the national team of Ukraine
Goalkeepers.: Andriy Lunin (Real Madrid, Spain), Anatoliy Trubin (Shakhtar Donetsk), Mykyta Shevchenko (Oleksandriya).
Defenders.: Oleksandr Karavayev, Denys Popov (both Dynamo Kyiv), Mykola Matvienko (Shakhtar Donetsk), Vitaliy Mykolenko (Everton Liverpool, England), Ilya Zabarnyi (Bournemouth, England), Eduard Sobol (Strasbourg, France), Oleksandr Svatok, Eduard Sarapiy (both Dnipro-1 Dnipro), Denys Miroshnichenko (Oleksandriya).
Midfielders.: Taras Stepanenko, Heorhii Sudakov, Artem Bondarenko (all - Shakhtar Donetsk), Serhii Sydorchuk, Vitalii Buyalskyi (both - Dynamo Kyiv), Oleksandr Pikhalonok (Dnipro-1 Dnipro), Andrii Yarmolenko (Al Ain, UAE), Ruslan Malinowski (Olympique Marseille, France), Oleksandr Zinchenko (Arsenal London, England), Viktor Tsygankov (Girona, Spain), Mykhailo Mudryk (Chelsea London, England), Yevhen Konoplyanka (Krakowia Krakow, Poland).
Forwards.: Roman Yaremchuk (Brugge, Belgium), Artem Dovbyk (Dnipro-1, Dnipro).
Oleksandr Hlyvynskyi, press secretary of the national team of Ukraine
