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please. ah, 3 times. but still very much alive. d w channel, your guy to the central has in germany. it recognizes where exactly. it was fun. i learned a lot of our culture history, all their d. w. travel extremely worth a visit. mm hm. oh oh. oh, oh, oh, oh, wow. a model so many people are dying in the

war. so it's unbearable. assume it's very disturbing. or ga, the soldiers protect our country on the front lines and as and we you sports for the fight for our country. army the fish, iowa, sporting since summer 2022, ukraine's best handled team h. c. motors. parisha has been playing in germany as war rages in their home country. they do battle out on the court. elizabeth, the sooner you pulled the yearning from my homeland has never gone away. good luck . i miss my country's illness all the time. i mean, ah, dusseldorf is where h. c. mote his apparition have made their home away from home. it's angie concise, 19th birthday. he's spending it with teammates rather than his family, who are

a long way away with the in some way. and what we miss our country looks cuz it's the fertile spell abroad, and it was kind of the, or we were away at times before we had that, not for this long, but he only, it's hard to the law. you miss your hon. you relatives say, marry them, i want this water and sewer and every one to be able to go back home. noise from the alexander carsa is another player who has had to get used to a new home in de seldorf, having spent many months here with his team every day they work hard and not just for the sake of sporting success, where that was, have been my main job is to show the world that ukraine is strong squiggly in these difficult times. we have to show the ass spirit comes from the heart. that is all set. and as athletes, we want to show the whole world that we will represent our country. whatever

happens on there was ice from the center, so number tomorrow, but if so let, this will claim ah, in july 2022 alexander casa, and his girlfriend, carina started a new life away from the war. many of their friends and relatives are still in ukraine, somewhat with us all the cause and i miss them all a lot. of course i'm really worried about all of them. i's question is, i mean i try to keep in touch with them all constantly through the phone and video calls over to show masters. it's good that we have this technology now and you can see your friends and relatives couldn't, and at least spend time with them this way or was supposedly mailed to us. obviously, i, mr. moore, it was cuz i thought this was a question. ringback ringback hello, the hello,

but to see yeah. how are you? not everything is fine here. how are you? up until now everything has been fine. gosh, i guess there is some shooting, but it's quiet. the whole bought the so not so siren. no, not at the moment, but a week ago there were attains irons per day, a lot. notice much. now there are fewer. i hope they've lost some of their determination duration. we hope we can get through this week without any trouble. all these days i'm sure you will. thank you. my dear is will you hear laura uses? i miss you so much on that. i know i miss you. we can't wait to see you again. i'm good, bye. good bye bye record. those are those. it's one of the yeah, this contact helps

a lot show proof of his valet. it gives us strength. inspires us to keep going on not think about the things that are happening in my homeland royal when the dulles expo that while many ukrainians were involved in the war effort fighting for their lives on the front line. most his parishes, players spent the late summer of 2022 gearing up for their 1st league game in germany. ah, training sessions like this one bring a sense of normality back to the player's lives. with that the war is ever present. i think everybody changed because sir, we, we, we were to go and when the war started and,

and we got separated just in the 1st day sir, of the water. and there are, of course, there all team is sir, get more studious with more thoughts. probably what is going on in the okay. and with mouth. i can tell us several. keenest has been coaching the team since 2020 that these days. he's also had to act as the team psychologist and for young players who came here without their families. the kind of father figure i feeling that we have some mental issue a little bit for gardening there, there had water come all day long course of course there, there, there thinks we're through. it's going going in agreeance of course, has some, some issue in their plan is heads and there was shaft to fix it would mostly mostly

we are. we understand that we are professionals. hebert, demy throw to tunic has played for h. c motor since 2017. he's one of the most experienced players in the squad and said to paula to the guy on handle on fleet and takes our minds of the situation from wesley. yes, holy. obviously, we'll think about it. maya. but ham ball still helps us clear our head somehow in during training. somebody say good, good, good. um yeah, no, my g u i was your mother. also, demetrius came to germany together with his wife julia and his young daughter, eva,

letters of mutual loss. we saw that it was dangerous, especially for the bay boss marie. awful one of them. when we found out the team would be stationed in germany. well, we were very happy with the come on. that was, it was a lot. so in my me, it's essential that my family is here, so it's, it's difficult to play anywhere without my family. and in this year i've relatives a close by about it. it's much easier about the lecture with when he's not training the young family often find themselves at the play grounds when i'm here etha can play without a care in the world. what. what? oh yeah. oh, really with garden then to those where you read the news every day and worry about your relatives and loved ones to day. out in germany we have everything. so the

only thing you can do is worry about your relatives and parents. yes. but because of everything that's happening in our country, assigning the killed the time has come. the team from ukraine have their 1st match. their kits arrived from back home a few days earlier, just in time. some fans have also come to cheer on the team in that country with vigor. a foreign site participating in a german competition is a new phenomenon. in may 2022, the german hannibal league received the request and quickly decided the team from zappa regia would be brought into the set. there were no objections from the other teams in the league. they stayed true to the motto handball as help hand bowlers.

the game against by a door madden is tense. the ukrainians are behind, but battling dough mark and all the way they're competing well and are able to show off best strength is the sight to behold for carina. watching the game from in the stands in the in though the team from ukraine falls to a 3328 defeats a

sports board helps people calm their morning, early dom. unfortunately, it doesn't always go how we like it. if something happens at home, of course you can only think about, gosh, i wanted to talk, i caught you was burn, which i normally just a glad adama tapers. general potter do mercy. the handle season generally didn't go the way the team would have liked motor found themselves struggling in the lower side of the table. but away from the court, he can relax with carina. ah, even if sport sometimes feels a world away, war, friends and family back in ukraine are always on their minds. returned the cause into us the 2 io. and of course, i'm always home sick all the time causing us. it's very difficult when you live

abroad without your family zone quoted on best for you. you're always sad from you all ways worrying about the well being of your parents and friends roberson roles, dalia, which key of lucy do you see with the war ongoing h. c. motors upper reaches mission continues. they're fighting on the handle coats of germany to make sure ukraine is not forgotten. as nissan g muschamp, but our big hope is that the war and most of the control is rena. that's the most important thing for shows no mortal greens, that's what ukrainians are thinking about a possibility. so hoping that it will end as quickly as possible and people can go back to their old lives. louise which i it will

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