Ukrainian fans watching their team’s football match against England at Wembley today let dozens of blue and yellow paper planes loose and sang songs mocking Vladimir Putin as they called for F-16s to aid Ukrainian forces in the war against Russia.
In the 24th minute of play the paper planes were hurled into the air in a coordinated movement, against a backdrop of hundreds of Ukrainian flags.
Before the match, England’s players joined together with Ukraine’s to stand behind the national flag of the war-torn country and send out a message of peace.
England’s meeting with Ukraine in a Euro 2024 qualifier on Sunday comes as their opponents face an ongoing war with Russia in their own country.
Supporters in the stands held messages appealing for F-16 fighter jets as they protested against Putin’s illegal invasion.
Fans threw paper airplanes in the 24th minute of play, leaving them to fall to the ground as part of their call to receive more help from the west
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