Dynamo Kiev (Soccer Team)

Stranded Soccer Stars, Frantic Calls and a Race to Flee Kyiv

Inside the windowless conference room of the Kyiv hotel where the soccer stars had gathered, the anxiety was growing by the minute. An aborted attempt to flee had been a disaster. And the sounds of war — mortar fire, rocket blasts, screeching warplanes — provided a near constant reminder of their precarious circumstances. By Saturday […]