Oleksandr Zinchenko

, captain of the Ukrainian national team and Manchester City footballer, wished

Vladimir Putin

"the most painful of deaths" after the Russian invasion of his country.

The 25-year-old left-back posted his message on Instagram, although he later assured that the aforementioned text was deleted by the aforementioned social network.

"Russians, how does it feel to wake up in fascist Germany? Every Russian who does not express his opinion on this issue will be considered an enemy forever," the defender stressed in another Instagram post.

After his debut in October 2015, under the orders of

Mykhaylo Fomenko

, the captain of the Ukrainian team has played 48 games for his national team.

Like that of many compatriots, his professional career was shaken by the War in Donbass and in the summer of 2014 he had to leave the lower categories of Shakhtar Donetsk to play for RC Ufa, then recently promoted to the Russian Premier.

In 2016, after playing the European Championship with his national team, he was signed by

Pep Guardiola

and arrived at the Emirates Stadium just a few days after

Ilkay Gundogan

and

Nolito

.

This same week, Zinchenko had also shown his outright opposition to Moscow's expansionist policy.

"My country belongs to the Ukrainians and no one can ever take it over. We are not going to hand it over. I cannot stand by and not talk about this. The whole civilized world is worried about the situation in my country. The country in which I was born and raised, and whose colors I defend internationally. A country that we try to glorify and develop. A country whose borders must remain intact," he said.

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