Football fans were left in tears last night after Ukrainian player Oleksandr Zinchenko embraced fellow countryman Vitaliy Mykolenko in an emotional show of support for their country in the wake of Russia's invasion.
But the touching move was unsurprising from Zinchenko, 25, whose own remarkable journey to the Premier League club saw him flee to Moscow as a teenager after Russia's invasion of Crimea.
Now a top midfielder on a reported salary of £20,000 a week, he's come along way from the days of struggling to buy food as he played on concrete pitches for a non-league teams
Last night he joined the rest of his Manchester City squad in wearing shirts with the words 'no war' across the front and back and attended a vigil with his teary wife Vlada Shcheglova, a stunning TV presenter and journalist who is also a Ukrainian national.