After the muscle injury he sustained at the club, the midfielder will not recover in time for the second 2026 World Cup qualifier against Azerbaijan and is forced to return to the Catalan team's base.

We remind you that the match with Azerbaijan will take place on September 9 in Baku at the Republican Stadium named after Tofig Bahramov.

Ukraine Squad

Goalkeepers: Georgii Bushchan (“Al-Shabab”, Saudi Arabia), Anatolii Trubin (“Benfica” Lisbon, Portugal), Dmytro Ryshnyk (“Shakhtar” Donetsk).

Defenders: Ilya Zabarnyi (“Paris Saint-Germain” Paris, France), Oleksandr Svatok (“Austin”, USA), Valeri Bondar, Mykhailo Matviyenko, Yurym Konoplyan (all — “Shakhtar” Donetsk), Taras Mikhaylichenko, Vladyslav Dubynchak (both — “Dynamo” Kyiv), Bogdan Mykhailichenko (“Polesye” Zhytomyr).

Midfielders: Oleksandr Zinchenko (“Nottingham Forest”, England), Yegor Yarmoluk (“Brentford”, England), Ivan Kalynychenko (“Metalist 1925” Kharkiv), Mykhailo Shaparenko, Nazar Volosin (both — “Dynamo” Kyiv), Oleksii Ocheretnyk, Artem Bondarenko (both — “Shakhtar” Donetsk), Oleksiy Hutsulyak, Oleksandr Nazarenko (both — “Polesye” Zhytomyr), Georgii Sudakov (“Benfica” Lisbon, Portugal), Oleksandr Zubkov (“Trabzonspor” Trabzon, Turkey).

Forwards: Roman Yaremchuk (“Olympiacos” Piraeus, Greece), Artem Dovbyk (“Roma” Rome, Italy), Vladyslav Vannat (“Girona”, Spain).