Last season's Europa League runners-up Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk of Ukraine were handed a one-year European ban by UEFA on Thursday for breaching financial regulations....
Foreign stars are leaving, clubs are collapsing, crowds are shrinking and Dynamo Kiev suffered the latest blow for long-suffering Ukrainian football fans....
Within earshot of sporadic gunfire and surrounded by hulking ruins of homes, Ukrainian fighter Leonid crouches in a rancid basement to watch his tiny team on the European stage....
Sevilla became the first side to win the Europa League four times with a thrilling 3-2 win over Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk on Wednesday....
Just several hundred kilometres from their home stadium a brutal conflict has claimed thousands of lives, but now Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk have given war-wracked Ukraine a rare reason to cheer by reaching the Europa League final....