Ukraine soldiers on, and so does its premier league.

Football is played in the face of evil. In a sense, its very existence is poetic. And symbolic.

Never a dull moment here. Woken at 3am by a Shahed flying over Kyiv, it was panic stations.

Almost as scary was the five-hour bus to Oleksandriya driven on bad roads by a guy seemingly on steroids whose phone was stuck to his ear most of the way (top tip: NEVER get the bus to Oleksandriya).

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