“There’s no fuel. The border is closed. The airspace is closed,” said Brazilian football player Marlon Santos, speaking on an Instagram video from a hotel in Ukraine. “There’s no way for us to get out.”
The center-back, who plays for major Ukrainian club Shakhtar Donetsk, recorded the video alongside a group of fellow players and their wives. They claim to be trapped in a hotel and request assistance from the Brazilian government to flee the country.
As a matter of fact, Brazilians make up the biggest diaspora of foreign footballers in Ukraine, with a total of 33 players plying...
