HAMMER HEARTACHE Yarmolenko reveals heartache ---Sending family to UKRAINE just a day before WAR.

ON THE morning of February 24, Andriy Yarmolenko’s whole world collapsed.

A day earlier, he had waved goodbye to his wife Inna and one of his kids as they flew back to Ukraine’s capital city Kyiv.

Never in his wildest dreams did he envisage waking up in London to newsflashes of a Russian invasion and sudden fears his family and friends were in immediate danger.

Speaking for the first time since the war started to Ukrainian YouTube channel ‘Football 1/2/3’, the West Ham forward, 32, said: “When it all started, on February 24, I arrived at training and couldn’t even talk.