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A UK-based aid worker said he, his friends and colleagues were "so lucky to be alive" after they narrowly escaped a Russian missile attack on a hotel in central Ukraine on Wednesday night that left at least four dead.Karol Swiacki, a Polish national and founder of the Bournemouth-based charity Ukraine Relief, was at the Central Hotel in Kryvyi Rih having dinner with friends when the missile struck.
"We are all safe we didn't have a scratch, it is incredible," he told BBC News, adding "we still don't know how we survived this, honestly."Dnipropetrovsk regional head Serhiy Lysak said 32 people, including two children, were wounded in the attack on President Volodymyr Zelensky's hometown.The charity worker -
- is in Ukraine carrying out aid relief work including delivering sports equipment and renovating a school for 550 children.He is also visiting shelters and orphanages with Ukraine Relief's trustee, Marc Edwards - a British national who now lives in the US.
The duo were having dinner with friends at the hotel restaurant at the time of the strike. The dining party included two US volunteers, two workers from a Ukrainian charity foundation, a young boy and his pregnant mother.
"We'd just put our stuff in our rooms and went to eat with our local Ukrainian contacts and the cell phone alarm went off so we ran to the shelter," said Mr Edwards."If it had been difficult for the players, then I would have spent a lot of time talking to them and getting them ready for the next game.
"But I think maybe because we thought we were trying to compete until the end of the Champions League, and for the Premier League, that helped also the players to just stay focused on: 'We can do something special over here.'"And I think the most special moment for Mo and for Virgil is not their contract extension this year, but it was and is us winning the league. And this is what you live for, it's not the contract - they already have enough money, at least that's what I think!"
Salah has admitted finding Slot initially "quite tough" and recently spoke of the pairduring pre-season after a lacklustre warm-up in a training session, about doing more and setting a good example to younger players.