Argentine soccer players Francisco Di Franco and Claudio Spinelli, who play for Ukrainian teams, try to leave that country

Argentine soccer players Francisco DiFranco and Claudio Spinelli, who militate in teams of Ukraineare trying to leave that country, which this Thursday was invaded by the army of Russia.

“I am in a hotel that the club provided us for foreigners. Before I was in the center, in my apartment, at 5 in the morning I woke up because they started throwing bombs and we listened to everything very closely. We immediately went to the base of the club. They dropped another bomb very close by. For security reasons, we came to a hotel that is further away,” said Di Franco, who is a member of the Dniproto the All News channel.

“At 5 in the morning I woke up to the noise, I saw a glow, I looked out and saw a giant flare in the distance. Three minutes later there was another very loud explosion nearby and the calls from the club began to get us all together.”, he specified.

He assured that he is “well” and in communication with the embassy and the Argentine Foreign Ministry to “leave the country as soon as possible.”

“The situation is complicated because they are closing the citiesIt is not possible to travel from one city to another so easily and it is difficult to get to the border city to be able to leave the country,” he explained.

Claudio Spinelliwho plays for Oleksandria, “is escaping” from Ukraine and will try to reach Poland, according to what his father, also called Claudio Spinelli, told Radio 10.

“I’ve been talking since 2 in the morning, the situation is desperate. She’s running away he grabbed things from the apartment where he lives and is trying to run away, is going on a route to Poland. It’s a nightmare. He was in Oleksandria. The idea is to go to the border with Poland, which is the closest, and try to get out,” explained the striker’s father.

Spinelli, according to his father, heads to the border with “some guys” in a van donated by the club.

“It’s an every man for himself because the club can’t give you tools other than telling them ‘come on’. He is calm because he is there and he is living it, we are walking through the walls. It’s exasperating, I’ve been up since 2 in the morning with my wife. you go crazy I guess that at the border you will also have a difficult situation”, he added.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship of Argentina suggested this Thursday to the Argentines who are in Ukraine to leave that country after the attack launched by Russia.

Argentina’s presidential spokesperson, Gabriela Cerutistated that 83 Argentine citizens live in Ukraine and another 20 are in transit in the country, some people who are being “monitored” by the Argentine embassy. (D)