Lunchtime at the Ukrainian team's hotel in Warsaw's Mariott saw the arrival of called-up players from "Dynamo" and "Shakhtar," who had played their European matches in Poland.

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The miners played in Warsaw, so they simply moved from another hotel or temporary accommodation in the Polish capital. The Kyivans covered a journey from Krakow that took about three and a half hours. Andriy Yarmolenko flew in by plane from Dubai, where he plays for "Al-Ain."

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Unfortunately, the flight from Larnaca was delayed, which is where Dnipropetrovsk players Artem Dovbik and Oleksandr Pihalonen were flying in. As a result, the players of SK "Dnipro-1" did not make it to the evening training session and only met their teammates after returning from practice at the fourth division club's stadium "Gutnik" (Warsaw).

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Training had a recovery character. Head coach Oleksandr Petrakov decided not to split the team into groups, so all of the called-up players worked together. The main task set by the coach today was how to recover after club games, which will be helped by post-training procedures and mentally switching over to work with the national team.

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After running and physical exercises, the called-up players played tennis ball. Meanwhile, goalkeeper coach Vyacheslav Kernozhenko conducted a full training session with three goalkeepers present in the camp — Anatoliy Trubin, Dmytro Ryzhnik, and Yevgen Volynets.

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As always, the boys are happy to see each other after a long break and enthusiastically got down to work. Tomorrow the blue-and-yellow team will train together again, and this time it will be completely different work than today.

Ukraine National Team Roster

Goalkeepers: Dmytro Ryznyk ("Vorskla" Poltava), Andriy Lunin ("Real Madrid," Spain), Anatoliy Trubin ("Shakhtar" Donetsk), Yevgen Volynets ("Kolos" Kovalivka).

Defenders: Oleksandr Karavaiev, Oleksandr Timchik, Illia Zabarnyi (all — "Dynamo" Kyiv), Mykhailo Matviienko, Serhiy Krivoshytov, Valeriy Bondar, Bohdan Mikhaylichenko (all — "Shakhtar" Donetsk), Vitalii Mykolenko ("Everton," England), Taras Kachariaba ("Slavia," Czech Republic), Eduard Sobolev ("Brugge," Belgium).

Midfielders: Taras Stepanenko, Mihailo Mudryk, Oleksandr Zubkov (all — "Shakhtar" Donetsk), Serhiy Sydorchuk, Viktor Tsygankov (both — "Dynamo" Kyiv), Oleksandr Pihalonen (SK "Dnipro-1" Dnipropetrovsk), Andriy Yarmolenko ("Al-Ain," UAE), Ruslan Malinovskyi ("Atalanta," Italy), Viktor Kovalenko ("Spezia," Italy), Danilo Igнатенко ("Bordeaux," France).

Forwards: Roman Yaremchuk ("Brugge," Belgium), Artem Dovbik (SK "Dnipro-1" Dnipropetrovsk).

Reserves: Artem Besedin ("Dynamo" Kyiv), Oleksiy Hutsulyak, Eduard Sarapiev (both — SK "Dnipro-1" Dnipropetrovsk), Yegor Nazarina ("Zorya" Luhansk).

Oleksandr Hlyvinskyi, press secretary of the national team