Kryvbas head coach Yuriy Vernidub shared his thoughts on the players who went or stayed in Russia after 2014.
"I don't want to talk about these people at all. These are sick people. They have made their choice. Although Tymoschuk talks a lot about, say, how come, why all his awards were cancelled... And what was he waiting for? Maybe they will add something else? For the fact that he is in Zenit St. Petersburg and works for the aggressor? I think everything is natural here, everything is fair.
I do not understand the players who left to play in Russia after 2014. And I will never understand. Why exactly there? Weren't there other options? Go anywhere to "rip off" their own - but not to Russia. These moments are very hard for me.
Yes, Ordets, with the beginning of a full-scale war, still had the courage to leave there and is now playing in Germany. But if he wants to return to Ukraine - his society will not accept him. Never. Neither him, nor Tymoschuk," Vernidub said.