Football Inspires Survival Then Victory

As all of you know, Ukraine has been defending and fighting for their homeland, their families, their existence against dictator Vladimir Putin and his enslaved Russia ever since February 20, 2014. Yes, for ten years Ukraine has been essentially at war against Russia when they invaded and stole Crimea. Then in February 2022, because most of the international community allowed Putin/Russia to just take Crimea, he and his slaughtering armies and artillery wanted more: the rest of Ukraine. When will the decent, humane world, the freedom-loving world stop Putin? When he invades more of Eastern Europe?

Because this is a footballing blog, I will not go into here the political, international diplomacy, the U.N., the war atrocities committed, etc., regarding the war in Ukraine. But I will share this inspiring fight to defend one’s sovereignty, human rights, and equality both on the international level as well as the sublevels of nation, state/provincial, and familial level, all the way to the football pitch. Please watch this two and half minute trailer about Paramount +’s latest series, Football Must Go On… for their people and families still inside war-torn Ukraine:

There is also another outstanding PBS Frontline documentary about the earliest days and sheer carnage of Putin’s Russia invading Ukraine and Mariupol called, 20 Days In Mariupol. If you’d like watch this on scene documentary footage of exactly what it was like for Ukrainians in those first weeks of Russia’s invasion:

To all the free world, let’s NOT EVER remove or forget our full support for Ukraine’s defense and reclamation of their Crimea and eastern Ukraine—or possibly all of Ukraine if we abandon them!

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