Noa Nehar, a young Franco-Algerian player from Dynamo Kiev, is stuck in Ukraine as war breaks out there. The footballer told what he was going through at the microphone of RMC.
On the night of Wednesday February 23 to Thursday February 24, Vladimir Poutinethe Russian President, ordered the invasion of Ukraine. Noa Nehar is currently in this country. This Franco-Algerian football player joined Dynamo Kiev last January. It was around 4 a.m. that the athlete was suddenly awakened: “I heard three or four explosionsbut I didn’t know if it was that or something else, he testifies on RMC Sport. But it wasn’t the storm. An hour later, we heard another. We heard a siren again around noon.“
The ex-Monegasque is cloistered at home, with a teammate, Samba Diallo, aged 19, Senegalese international U20 left winger, while waiting for instructions from the embassy. The two men live in a district of Kiev which was not affected by the evacuations. “We are locked in our apartment”, he reports. The two footballers seem to be living the situation rather calmly. “We are safe, he assures. We are in a good part of Kiev, Lipki.” On the recommendations of the embassy, they took their precautions: “We were told to stay at your place and stock up. Yesterday (Wednesday), we bought pasta, rice, water”explains Noa Behar.
Noa Nehar: “It’s a bit complicated to leave”
Currently, the two footballers are waiting instructions from the embassy to be able to return to their country. “We had asked the president to leave, but he didn’t want to because there were the Youth League matches, advance the player. And there, he said that we could, it delayed the fact that we could leave a little. It was starting to talk, the war was already starting on the border, civilians were killed in Russia. We felt it was happening.” And to add: “There are traffic jams everywhere because everyone wants to leave the city, the trains are full and the airport is closed. It’s a bit complicated to leave.” Noa Nehar is waiting for news from her agent. “We’ll see what they tell us, he continues. We are waiting for our agents to tell us what to do, if we take a train to go to Poland or if the embassy finds us a slot so that we can leave and that we can find a flight that takes us back to France.”
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Between explosions and sirens, the surreal testimony of a young French footballer stuck in Ukraine
This Franco-Algerian football player joined Dynamo Kiev last January.
© Screenshot RMC Sport
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Between explosions and sirens, the surreal testimony of a young French footballer stuck in Ukraine
It was around 4 a.m. that the athlete was suddenly awakened.
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Between explosions and sirens, the surreal testimony of a young French footballer stuck in Ukraine
“I heard three or four explosions, but I didn’t know if it was that or something else, he testifies on RMC Sport. But it was not the storm. An hour later, we heard another one. We heard another siren around noon.”
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Between explosions and sirens, the surreal testimony of a young French footballer stuck in Ukraine
The ex-Monegasque is cloistered at home, with a teammate, Samba Diallo, 19, Senegalese international left winger U20, while awaiting instructions from the embassy.
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Between explosions and sirens, the surreal testimony of a young French footballer stuck in Ukraine
The two men live in a district of Kiev which was not affected by the evacuations.
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Between explosions and sirens, the surreal testimony of a young French footballer stuck in Ukraine
“We are locked in our apartment,” he reports.
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Between explosions and sirens, the surreal testimony of a young French footballer stuck in Ukraine
The two footballers seem to be living the situation rather calmly.
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Between explosions and sirens, the surreal testimony of a young French footballer stuck in Ukraine
“We are safe, he assures us. We are in a good district of Kiev, Lipki.”
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Between explosions and sirens, the surreal testimony of a young French footballer stuck in Ukraine
On the recommendations of the embassy, they took their precautions.
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Between explosions and sirens, the surreal testimony of a young French footballer stuck in Ukraine
“We were told to stay at your place and stock up. Yesterday (Wednesday), we bought pasta, rice, water,” explains Noa Behar.