A version of this article was first run on the BBC Sport website in March 2023
"I woke up to the sound of explosions and sirens," says Manor Solomon. "It was like being in the middle of a movie."
The new Tottenham Hotspur signing and Israel winger was describing the events of 24 February 2022 when, as a player at Shakhtar Donetsk, he was living in Kyiv on the day Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
"Everyone was panicking because the war had started and didn't know what to do," Solomon, 23, tells BBC Sport.