Washers, kicks and war. How NHL and European Clubs have taken care of hundreds of young hockey players from Ukraine

They pay for accommodation, ammunition and classes-HB has collected several stories about how they accepted the EU and the USA domestic Khokeist children. Tatiana Movchan, together with her family, escaped from the Russian army twice: in 2014-from her native Donetsk, and in 2022-from Bucha. From the beginning of a full -scale invasion of the Russian Federation and by March 10, she and her relatives spent in the basement of her Buchansky house, escaping from the enemy.

After that, the connection appeared and silent was able to talk to acquaintances, whose children, like her 15-year-old son, Adrian, were engaged in hockey at the Falcon Metropolitan Club. Video of the day of the day of the Federation of Hockey of Ukraine (FSU) organized the departure of young domestic hockey players to Italy. With her help, the silence and her son managed to leave Buch first and later Ukraine. Later, the 11-year-old daughter of Donetsk joined them.

The family got to the 100,000th city of Bolzano, located in northern Italy, in the foothills of the Alps. The region is known in Apennines for its hockey traditions-yes, last season, the local youth team U-17 took second place in the country's championship. The Gladiators Bolzan Club has accepted the full provision of five growing hockey players from Ukraine - a couple of girls and three boys. Among the latter was the son of Movchan. “Next year, everything for our players will also be free.

The Italian coach has ambitions - to take the first place. And he will not hurt the three good Ukrainian guys, ”the former Donetsk woman says. With the beginning of full -scale aggression of the Russian Federation, many European and American hockey organizations have undertaken to help young Ukrainian athletes. First of all, they contributed to the evacuation of about 1 thousand of them to the EU countries - such data led to FHU.