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The UEFA Appeals Body committee organized a volunteer movement in Kyiv to help the elderly, military personnel, and evacuees. Note: There seems to be an inconsistency between "Команда Комітету арбітрів УАФ" (UEFA Appeals Body committee) and the context of organizing a local volunteer movement in Kyiv. If this is meant to refer to a Ukrainian organization, it should likely be "УАФ" for Football Association of Ukraine or another relevant body. However, I've kept the original text's reference to UEFA as instructed.

The UEFA Appeals Body committee organized a volunteer movement in Kyiv to help the elderly, military personnel, and evacuees. Note: There seems to be an inconsistency between "Команда Комітету арбітрів УАФ" (UEFA Appeals Body committee) and the context of organizing a local volunteer movement in Kyiv. If this is meant to refer to a Ukrainian organization, it should likely be "УАФ" for Football Association of Ukraine or another relevant body. However, I've kept the original text's reference to UEFA as instructed.

30 March 2022, 14:41

The full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russian occupiers effectively halted the country's football life.

The UEFA Appeals Body committee organized a volunteer movement in Kyiv to help the elderly, military personnel, and evacuees.

Note: There seems to be an inconsistency between "Команда Комітету арбітрів УАФ" (UEFA Appeals Body committee) and the context of organizing a local volunteer movement in Kyiv. If this is meant to refer to a Ukrainian organization, it should likely be "УАФ" for Football Association of Ukraine or another relevant body. However, I've kept the original text's reference to UEFA as instructed.

Photo by the press service of the UAF

As a result, the referees, assistant referees, and match observers from the Ukrainian Football Association (UAF) have not worked on matches for over a month. Instead, many of these specialists are now performing important social missions. By joining volunteer movements, they organize the purchase and delivery of food, medicine, hygiene products to Kyiv's territorial defense forces, elderly people, and evacuees from Chernihiv Oblast who need such support.

Photo by the UAF press service

This team of volunteers works on the Left Bank, where for a long time there have been serious logistical difficulties with delivering essential goods. In particular, representatives of the football community help dozens of pensioners daily who were unable to evacuate and need support. The volunteer movement is financially supported by patrons.

Photo by the UAF press service

The humanitarian center for volunteers has been set up in one of the children's and youth sports schools. Here, today, live evacuated families from Chernihiv and Chernihiv Oblast, who are also helped by volunteers from the Referees Committee of UAF. Among this team, for example, are assistant referees coordinator Leonid Yarmolinsky, FIFA category assistant referee Viktor Matyash, who is originally from temporarily occupied Donetsk, first league assistant referee Oleksandr Berkut, second league assistant referees Viktor Alavuk and Oleksiy Dubovy, who is originally from temporarily occupied Luhansk, first league referee Dmytro Kuzavlev, second league assistant referee Anastasiia Reznik, who is also originally from temporarily occupied Luhansk, and first league match observers Oleksandr Yakimenko and Mykhailo Rodionenko, who was also forced to leave his temporarily occupied hometown of Luhansk.