Brazilian footballers playing in Ukrainian clubs asked for help from their government on Thursday February 24 to be evacuated after the Russian invasion, in a video where they appear confined to a hotel in Kiev with their families. In the images, we can see in particular international striker David Neres, who recently arrived at Shakhtar from Ajax Amsterdam, and players from Dynamo Kiev, standing in the living room of a hotel. ” We gamer wives feel abandoned, we don’t know what to do. (…) We ran away with our children to the hotel, we don’t know if there will be food here, that’s why we are calling for help “, explains the companion of a footballer. The Brazilian Embassy in Ukraine said in a statement that it ” remained open “to ensure the” protection of (his) some 500 nationals “, asking them to “ get in touch daily with his services.