Aleksandr Khatskievich - about Milevskyy: "It was a creature, definitely not Artem. Thank God, Aliev pulled him out of this hole

Former Dynamo Kyiv head coach Oleksandr Khatskevich has recalled his meeting with ex-footballer Artem Milevskyy before his hospitalisation.

"Unfortunately, Artem has no family or real friends. Thank God, Sasha Aliev helped him and managed to get him out of this pit Milevskyi was in in time.

I saw Artem's physical condition, it was only a person similar to Milevskiy. It was a creature. It was on 5 June, when we played in Uzhgorod. I had a shock. I told Aliev that the same tragedy as with Valik Belkevych could happen. A sad sight. You could not see his face under the cap, glasses, swollen, edematous, slow movements, incoherent speech. Definitely not Artem. It was very sad to see him like that.

I know that it was hard to get Milevsky into the clinic, because according to the law, you can't do anything without consent. I do not know how they managed to convince him, but what I see now in social networks makes me happy. If it's forever. Artem must realise that you must always be in this state. There's no going back. Good for him for getting out. God grant him to realise and understand how many people made efforts to get him out," Khatsekevich said on the air of Youtube channel "Zhiznaya raspberry".