After a night flight following an away match in Kazakhstan, the blue-and-yellow team returned to their residence in Kyiv around 5 AM and immediately went to sleep.

At 2 PM there was lunch, at 5:30 PM – theoretical training, and at 6 PM the national team departed for training which took place on the NTK named after V. Bannikov field.

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Today, after lunch, Igor Kharytin joined the team. He signed a contract with Polish Lechia Gdansk the day before. Inspired by his move to a new club, Igor arrived at the camp of the national team with special emotions.

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Post-game training traditionally took place in two groups. Ten players who played more than one half yesterday performed aerobic running exercises and stretching to recover. Meanwhile, the rest of the team had a full session aimed at obtaining sufficient physical and game load.

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Unfortunately, there is sad news. Vitaliy Buyalskyi sustained a tendon injury in yesterday's match which will keep him out of play for about two weeks. Therefore, the half-back will not be able to help blue-and-yellow against France and Czech Republic.

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Tomorrow, the national team of Ukraine will have a pre-game day. At 5 PM Oleksandr Petrakov, head coach of the national team, and a player from the squad will meet with the media in the conference hall of NSK "Olympic", and at 5:30 PM official training for blue-and-yellow will begin on the main arena of the country, the first 15 minutes of which will be open to representatives of mass media.

Alexander Glyvinskyi, press secretary of the national team of Ukraine