Manchester Metropolis: Ukrainian refugee Andrii Kravchuk permitted to coach with membership

Andrii Kravchuk and Oleksandr Zinchenko

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Andrii Kravchuck has played for Ukraine at Under-17 and Under-21 levels

Manchester City have been given Premier League permission to let Ukrainian refugee Andrii Kravchuk train with the club.

The move follows intervention by City and Ukraine defender Oleksandr Zinchenko.

The pair played together at youth level at Shakhtar Donetsk.

Kravchuk was on a training camp in Turkey with his Russian club side Torpedo Moscow when the Russian invasion of Ukraine began.

The 23-year-old midfielder has now terminated his contract and fled to Manchester, where he will train with City’s Under-23 squad for the remainder of the season.

“I felt really uncomfortable,” Kravchuk said about playing for a Russian club.

“I was playing in a country that invaded my homeland. Leaving the club was the only decision. People in Ukraine would not understand me if I continued to play there.”

Kravchuk’s family remain in Kyiv, where his brother Aleks is fighting in the country’s armed forces.

“I tell him every day how proud…

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