Arsenal defender opens up on the crisis, fundraising with Andriy Shevchenko and August’s Game4Ukraine charity match
Half an hour in Oleksandr Zinchenko’s company is a harrowing experience. The Ukrainian spends most of the conversation blinking back tears and he speaks with raw, unbridled passion about the horrors being inflicted on his country by Russia.
“I am angry even now,” the Arsenal player says. “I am angry every single day because I really want to know what they are doing – to achieve what? To win what?
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