Ex-Liverpool striker Voronin details flight from Russia

Former Liverpool and Ukraine striker Andriy Voronin has spoke of how he and his family fled Moscow in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Voronin had been the assistant manager with Dynamo Moscow for the last two years after ending his playing days there, but the Russian invasion of Ukraine compelled him to flee the country.

Speaking to German newspaper Bild, Voronin detailed his hurried flight from Moscow to Germany.

"We got out of Moscow before it was completely blocked. But we couldn't land in Düsseldorf so we flew via Amsterdam," he said.

"My father, my mother-in-law, my wife and children are here now. The little ones went to the German school in Moscow. But school doesn't matter now.

"I've been unwell for four days. Really bad. When I see all the pictures from my homeland, when I see the news. It's all as unreal as a movie, but a horror film. I have hardly any words left."

Voronin claimed that most people in Russia have little idea of what is happening in Ukraine due to tight reins being kept on the media.

"I and many other Ukrainians have friends in Russia and they are our friends and relatives. And then they attack us, Putin attacks my country. So many people have died already. They are children of mothers - Ukrainian and Russian.

"Nobody in Russia knows about it. It's not shown on TV there. Ninety percent don't even know what's happening. Putin don't care about the people. It harms not only us, but also the Russian people."

"My thoughts and my heart are in Ukraine. I have friends in Kharkov, in Kyiv, in my hometown of Odessa. I get messages every five minutes. It's hard to bear, I just want to help. With money, whatever.

"I don't know if I should say it, but if I were in Ukraine right now, I'd probably have a gun in