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It has been suggested that Manchester City head coach Pep Guardiola has “definitely” had “conversations” about leaving the Premier League holders.

Guardiola‘s long-term future is in doubt as he has entered the final year of his Man City contract.

In the summer, the Man City boss was mooted as a potential replacement for former England boss Gareth Southgate, but the FA opted to appoint Thomas Tuchel.

The Spaniard has also been mentioned as a candidate for the Brazil job and it remains to be seen whether he will commit his future to Man City.

The 53-year-old has been with Man City since 2016. He has helped them win the Premier League six times and the Champions League once.

Before this international break, Man City endured a rare rough patch under Guardiola as they lost four games in a row across all competitions. They were beaten by Tottenham Hotspur, AFC Bournemouth, Sporting Lisbon and Brighton. This run places them sixth in the Premier League form table.

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Despite this, last week, a report from Football Insider claimed Guardiola has ‘reached an agreement in principle’ with Man City over a new contract.

‘The legendary Catalan boss is set to put pen to paper on a new one-year extension running until the summer of 2026.

‘Sources say the deal is “99% done” after new talks, with an official announcement expected soon.

‘Guardiola’s future has been the subject of widespread speculation but he insisted last month that he had not made a final decision.

‘City fans are now set to get clarity with the 53-year-old set to extend his stay at the Etihad Stadium to ten years.’

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However, nothing has been confirmed and former Man City financial advisor Stefan Borson says Guardiola has “definitely spoken to Brazil”.

“We know he has had conversations with them before,” Borson told Football Insider.

“I think [Brazil] are one of the options should he end up leaving City.

“Clearly, being out of contract will make things easier in that there will be no compensation to pay, so it would just be a negotiation between him and Brazil.

“I think it’s slightly surprising that we haven’t heard anything so far during this international break.

“This would be the time when you would expect Guardiola if he was going to stay at City, I think this would be the week that you would expect it to happen.

“We will have to see, but he definitely has spoken to Brazil, so we know that it is a possible option after City.

“The question is whether it will be now or at some other point in the future, but I definitely think the story is true.”

Today at 21:45, the Ukrainian national team will play Albania in the last match of the Nations League. A victory could put the team in second place in the group and give them a chance to be promoted to League A.

Today, at 21:45 Kyiv time, the Ukrainian national team will play its final Nations League match of the year against Albania in Tirana at the Air Albania Stadium. UNN decided to tell you where to watch the match, the starting lineups, and who is the bookmakers' favorite.

Ukraine has never played in this arena, but back in 2005, at the Kemal Stafa Stadium, where Air Albania was built, the Ukrainian national team played its only match on Albanian soil, defeating the hosts in the qualifiers for the historic 2006 World Cup 2-0.

The match can be watched live on the Megogo platform, and the Ukrainian national team will be broadcast live on T2 digital broadcasting by regional Suspilne TV channels. It is already known that Ukraine will play the match in a yellow kit. The Albanians will play in red.

For the match against the Albanians, the head coach of the national team made 4 substitutions: Anatoliy Trubin in goal, Ilya Zabarny and Mykola Matvienko in the center of defense, Vitaliy Mykolenko and Yukhym Konoplya on the flanks of defense. Ivan Kalyuzhnyi will play in the support area instead of Volodymyr Brazhko, Heorhiy Sudakov and Oleksandr Zinchenko, who replaces Mykola Shaparenko, will start in the center of midfield. Mykhailo Mudryk and Oleksiy Hutsulyak, who replaces Oleksandr Zubkov, will start on the attacking flanks. Roman Yaremchuk will play at the center of the attack instead of Artem Dovbyk.

Forward Vladyslav Vanat, who missed the previous match against Georgia due to injury, was not included in the squad.

The day before, the national team coach Serhiy Rebrov said that Vanat was recovering, but did not say for sure whether he would be able to take part in the match.

"Vanat is recovering. We will see. There are still 24 hours. Vlad came to the national team with a desire to play. We did not understand how long it would take him to recover from the injury. He wants to play for our country. There is still time, and I hope he will be ready," Rebrov said.

Ukraine, at the very least, needs to beat the Albanians to overtake them in the standings, which will allow it to take third place, which will allow it to play a match for retaining its League B registration with the team that took second place in League C.

Also, if the Czech Republic defeats Georgia and Ukraine defeats Albania, our team will take the second place, which will allow us to play in the butt matches for the A League against the team that took third place in the A League.

In the previous match, the Albanian national team narrowly defeated Ukraine (2:1). This victory was the first in the history of Albania in a confrontation with the Ukrainians. In total, Ukraine and Albania played 7 games, in which, as already mentioned, the Albanians won once, one was a draw, and Ukraine won the rest.

In this confrontation, bookmakers give a slight advantage to Ukraine – 2.3 odds. Albania's odds are 3.2, and the draw is 3.25.

The day before, the national team's forward Roman Yaremchuk emphasized that the Albanian national team is a pretty powerful team, but the players will focus on winning.

"We are playing away from home, and such matches are always different from home matches. Albania is a pretty powerful team. They have a good striker, a good defense line, and discipline in defense. We also have enough skilled players who can decide the fate of the match. We will focus on the fact that we need to win. We hope that we will have scoring chances to realize them. We want it to have a good psychological impact on us, so that each player relieves a little stress, feels confident and shows his best game," Yaremchuk said.

Portuguese João Pinheiro, who has already worked with Ukraine and Ukrainian teams, has been appointed as the main referee for the match. In particular, in September 2022, he officiated at the Armenia-Ukraine Nations League match, in which Ukraine recorded a 5-0 victory.

In early October of this year, the Portuguese refereed the Champions League group stage match between Shakhtar Donetsk and Italian side Atalanta, in which the Donetsk team suffered a crushing 0-3 defeat. In total, the Portuguese has already refereed six matches involving Ukrainian teams.

Recall

Ukraine's national team drew with Georgia in the fifth round of the UEFA Nations League group stage match. The match took place at the Adjarabet Arena in Batumi.

Questions marks surrounded the arrival of Arne Slot at Liverpool with many wondering how the players would take to him after so much joy with Jurgen Klopp.

Well, three and a half months into his tenure at Anfield and Slot finds himself top of the Premier League, the Champions League, a fanbase who’ll believe he can end Manchester City’s quest for a fifth successive league title and a happy camp all round.

With the likes of senior players Mo Salah, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Virgil van Dijk still yet to put pen to paper on a new deal at the club, the former admitted he is loving life under his fellow compatriot.

In an interview in his homeland with Voetbal International, Van Dijk said: “With the new trainer Arne Slot, slightly different things are being asked. Not just from me, but also from the other players. I have a very prominent role in that, and I like that. And I think the trainer is also very happy with that.”

The Reds have lost just one game under Slot which came in front of a stunned home crowd when Nottingham Forest beat them 1-0.

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Since then though, the Dutchman’s hasn’t put a foot wrong, and he may have learnt a lot of his side in defeat.

Van Dijk continued: “I am in a position where, for example, you see how the opponent is putting pressure. With one or two or three strikers. Are the opponent’s backs high or not, do they play with one or two controlling midfielders? They are different options every time.”

“I have been talking to the trainer about this since day one. We sat down with images. The development after that has only been good. I am really enjoying this.”

At 33, there’s no doubt Van Dijk still has bags of quality to bring to the Liverpool side. Should he find himself wanting a move away from Merseyside, expect to see him at one of Europe’s top clubs. His comments however, could hint to a possible career in coaching as he nears towards an age where most footballers retire.

Compared to Klopp, Slot is a much calmer figure, which reflects in the difference in their playing styles. Liverpool often sit off teams when taking the lead, rather than possess a heavy metal pressing style to the opposition, which Klopp was renown for.

On the differences between the duo, Van Dijk said: “Slot handles things in his own way and where I can help him I do so. The trainer has inherited a very good team. Slot is a very good manager.

Radu Dragusin has often been viewed as a backup centre-back by Ange Postecoglou since the defender arrived at Tottenham in January this year.

The north London club paid a fee of around £26m to secure the Romanian’s services from Serie A side Genoa, having made just 13 appearances since with Cristian Romero and Micky Van de Van forming a strong partnership at the heart of the backline.

With Dragusin’s minutes being limited, reports in Italy have seen him linked with a move to both Juventus and Napoli, with the former desperately in need of cover in defence due to an anterior cruciate ligament tear to Gleison Bremer.

Bremer is expected to miss the entirety of this season, so a move for a centre-back could be on the cards with Dragusin seen as a potential option with the 22-year-old coming through the ranks in Turin, while making one first team appearance. He is someone who understands Italian football well.

Despite the speculation though, Dragusin’s agent Florin Manea spoke to Telecapri regarding his clients current status at the Tottenham Hotspur stadium.

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“It is an honour for Radu to be wanted by teams like Napoli and Juve, but right now they are just rumours,” said Manea.

He continued: “We are focused on Tottenham. He still has five years left on his contract. It is not easy to go to a top club and impose yourself right away, he is still 22-years-old.”

Manea added: “If he never plays this season it is normal that other evaluations will be made: in January he won’t move, in June he will be evaluated.”

In the Premier League this season, Dragusin has played just 279 minutes, though he has featured heavily in the cup competitions when Postecoglou tends to rotate his squad.

Earlier this month, the Spurs boss publicly backed Dragusin. He said: “What I believe brings out the best in people is competition. I certainly didn’t bring Radu into be an understudy. I brought him in to be competition for Cuti [Romero] and Micky [Van de Van] and himself.”

Postecoglou continued: “If he went to Bayern Munich he wouldn’t be guaranteed football either. He was leaving where he was, where he was playing regularly for that challenge and I think that’s how it has to be. If he keeps improving his performances I hope that will push Romero along and Van de Ven along.”

Man Utd are looking to end years of transfer mistakes by giving Ruben Amorim a ‘more modest budget’ compared to Erik ten Hag, according to reports.

The Red Devils sacked Ten Hag at the end of October after the Dutchman could only guide them to three wins in their first nine Premier League matches of the season.

Despite securing another four points in two games under interim boss Ruud van Nistelrooy, new head coach Amorim will start with Man Utd 13th place in the Premier League.

Amorim was officially announced on November 1 but he could not start until last Monday after taking charge of his final match as Sporting Lisbon boss in a 4-2 win over Braga.

Speculation is already rife about who INEOS and Sir Jim Ratcliffe could look to buy in order to support Amorim in the January transfer window with numerous names mooted as potential additions.

However, the Daily Telegraph claim that Amorim will ‘operate on a more modest budget’ than Ten Hag as the Portuguese coach will be tasked with ‘maximising the untapped potential in the squad as the club aim to end the damaging and costly cycle of mass overhauls’.

The report adds:

‘The new United hierarchy have no plans under Amorim to rip up a squad they feel is capable of delivering far more and are determined to move away from a culture of persistent upheaval they believe to be financially unsustainable and destructive to coherent squad building.

‘Denmark striker Rasmus Hojlund and England midfielder Mason Mount are cited as just two examples of players United are hoping can thrive in a new environment under the charismatic Portuguese, who will take charge of his first game as the club’s new head coach away to Ipswich Town on Sunday.

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‘United have averaged five new signings every summer for the past 10 years under four different managers with vastly different ideas of how they want to play. All have had little success to show for the huge expenditure.

‘While Amorim is expected to be operating under a more modest transfer budget next summer than his predecessor Ten Hag did during his 2½-year reign, when he spent more than £600 million, United want to implement a more sustainable structure where waste is limited, the churn of players greatly reduced and more talent realised.

‘United feel there are plenty of players in the squad who, with better coaching, attention and support in the right system and set-up, have a much higher ceiling than they may have shown previously, and the club hope Amorim can unlock that potential.

‘Equally, there is a feeling there may be more experienced players who also stand to benefit considerably from Amorim’s arrival and others who find they are given a new lease of life in potentially reimagined roles.’

Ruben Amorim has reportedly made Galatasaray star Yunus Akgun ‘a key target ahead of the January transfer window’ despite what Enzo Maresca had to say about the winger while he was on loan at Leicester last season.

Amorim will take charge of his first Manchester United game against Ipswich on Sunday, but rumours of moves from the Red Devils in the transfer market have been rife since he was announced as the new manager at the start of the month. We’re up to 12 ‘first signings’ so far.

Leicester fans may well be surprised by his supposed interest in Akgun after the Galatasaray winger started just nine games for the Foxes in the Championship last season, contributing one goal and three assists in his 23 appearances.

But according to TEAMtalk he’s been identified by Amorim as a ‘key target’ for the January transfer window.

Turkish outlet Sabah claim Amorim had the versatile forward on his transfer shortlist at Sporting and ‘added Akgun the to his wish list as soon as he moved to Man Utd’ having relayed his ‘positive opinion’ on the player to the Red Devils recruitment team.

The scouts are now said to be tracking Akgun at Amorim’s request and will keep an eye on his displays in the lead up to the January window.

The 24-year-old – who scored a stunning goal against Tottenham in the Europa League – is under contract at Galatasaray until 2026 and is valued by Transfermarkt at just £5m.

Maresca, who was manager of Akgun at Leicester last season, claimed he didn’t hand the winger more game time as he wasn’t convinced he was at the physical level to compete efficiently in English football.

Speaking in the days before handing Yunus 90 minutes against Huddersfield, Maresca said: “Yunus is struggling a little bit with the rhythm, probably because he said in Turkey the rhythm is a little bit low. Here it’s more quick, the pace of the game.

“He is struggling. He’s had a muscle problem, now it’s better. I like Yunus, I would like to give him more minutes, but he needs to adjust and understand how English football is, that it’s more physical.”

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Akgun told reporters in December that he had eyes for the Premier League.

“I came to the UK to play for Leicester believing and hoping and knowing that we will play in the Premier League,” Akgun said in December.

“My main aim, obviously, is for us to become champions here at Leicester and go up to the Premier League. I will be doing my best to help make that happen.”

Ruben Amorim promoted 16-year-old Goodwill Kukonki to first-team training in his first session as Manchester United manager, while a report suggests a fellow academy star is ‘expected to be fast-tracked’ under the Portuguese boss.

Amorim was announced as Erik ten Hag’s permanent successor at Old Trafford on November 1 but remained in charge of Sporting ahead of the international break and will be in the dugout for his first Red Devils game against Ipswich on Sunday.

Monday was Amorim’s first opportunity to see some of the players he will be working with, while others will return to training over the next week as they return from international duty.

Speculation is rife as to which United players will be boosted by Amorim’s arrival and the likely switch to a 3-4-3 formation, but Kukonki wasn’t one of those talked about as even a potential beneficiary.

The teenage centre-back, who towers over the rest of the squad at 6ft 5ins tall, has been tipped for a bright future at United and was welcomed to first-team training for the first time by Amorim.

The left-footed defender is a regular starter of the Under-18s team, and while it’s not clear whether he will remain with the group when the rest of the senior squad returns, it’s a move that adds weight to the view that Amorim will look to bring young players through from the academy, as he did with great success at Sporting.

And a GIVEMESPORT report claims ‘Amorim is expected to fast-track the development of Chido Obi-Martin after being given rave reviews of the 16-year-old striker by Manchester United youth coaches’.

United poached Obi-Martin from Arsenal in the summer after he scored 32 goals in just 18 Under-18 games for the Gunners, and he’s managed four in four since the move to the United academy.

The report adds:

‘Technical director Jason Wilcox, academy head Nick Cox and coach Darren Fletcher are all believed to have spoken with Amorim about Obi-Martin.

‘And they plan to integrate the teenager into some Under-21 games as well as some first-team training sessions to prepare him for the senior team.’

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The drive to improve the pathway for academy players into the first team may well be driven by a lack of funds for transfers.

A Daily Telegraph report claims that Amorim will ‘operate on a more modest budget’ than Ten Hag as the Portuguese coach will be tasked with ‘maximising the untapped potential in the squad as the club aim to end the damaging and costly cycle of mass overhauls’.

The report states:

‘The new United hierarchy have no plans under Amorim to rip up a squad they feel is capable of delivering far more and are determined to move away from a culture of persistent upheaval they believe to be financially unsustainable and destructive to coherent squad building.

‘Denmark striker Rasmus Hojlund and England midfielder Mason Mount are cited as just two examples of players United are hoping can thrive in a new environment under the charismatic Portuguese, who will take charge of his first game as the club’s new head coach away to Ipswich Town on Sunday.

The head coach of the Ukrainian national team, Serhiy Rebrov, did not speak at the press conference because of the interpreter who wanted to translate into Russian. The coach expressed his condolences to the victims of the shelling and offered to communicate in English.

During a press conference dedicated to tomorrow's match against Albania, Ukraine's head coach Serhiy Rebrov refused to answer questions because the interpreter provided by the Albanian side intended to translate into Russian, UNN reports.

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Prior to the press conference, Rebrov expressed his condolences to the families whose loved ones were killed in Russia's recent strikes on Ukraine.

"In connection with the recent shelling of the enemy, the terrorist country, and our civilian cities, I would like to express my personal and all the players of the Ukrainian national team's support to the families of the victims. I would like to remind you that the war in Ukraine continues. Every day the enemy shells our cities and kills our civilians. I would like to emphasize that we are truly grateful to everyone for their help. Right now we need this help from the European countries," said Rebrov.

After Rebrov finished his speech, the interpreter provided by the Albanian side asked the coach to repeat it again, but in Russian, because the interpreter did not understand Ukrainian well.

Rebrov refused and added that he could answer in English to make it easier for the interpreter.

"No Russians," added the national team's press attaché.

Recall

On Tuesday, November 19, the Ukrainian national team will play the final match in the League of Nations against Albania. The Ukrainians drew their previous match against Georgia.

Arsenal are keen on attempting to ‘repeat’ the operation which saw Martin Odegaard join the Gunners on loan from Real Madrid in 2021, according to reports.

The north London club have had a shaky start to the new Premier League season with Arsenal winning just five of their first 11 matches.

Arteta’s fourth-placed side are now nine points adrift of Premier League leaders Liverpool with the Reds making a fast start to the new season, while defending champions Man City are four points ahead in second.

Arsenal have not won in their last four Premier League matches as they struggle to stay in the title race and now there are rumours about who Mikel Arteta could bring in to improve his side.

The Gunners have only been able to call upon captain Odegaard for four Premier League matches this season and they are looking for some cover for the Norwegian.

And reports in Spain claim that Real Madrid attacking midfielder Arda Guler ‘could join’ Arsenal in January as the Turkey international continues to get frustrated about his game time.

The Premier League side ‘want to repeat what they did with’ Odegaard in 2021 with Guler after Arsenal brought the Norway international in initially on loan before making the deal permanent six months later for around €40m.

Guler, who starred at Euro 2024 for Turkey, is ‘seeing his talents remain on the back burner due to the lack of opportunities under the management of Carlo Ancelotti’.

Arsenal, who ‘had great success with Martin Odegaard after a similar situation, see in Guler an opportunity to repeat the formula’ but Real Madrid ‘could resist letting one of their jewels leave’.

Former Tottenham and Aston Villa defender Alan Hutton reckons Arsenal will probably end up finishing third this season but he’s already ruled them out of the title race.

Hutton told BestBettingSites.co.uk: “I did the Liverpool game against Aston Villa, and they were very good. I just feel the way the league is at this moment in time, if you start losing too many points, you’re out of it.

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“Liverpool are five points in front and then you’ve got Arsenal nine behind that. That’s a lot of points to reduce. That’s a lot in this day and age when you think of previous seasons, teams hardly lost a game. To pull that back is going to be very difficult for Arsenal.

“You can never write off City. That being said, at this moment in time, it would be between Liverpool and City. But things can quite easily change in football. I think Chelsea have done really well. I think it’s probably too soon for them to really be talking about competing for the title over the full length of season, but they’re coming up quickly and they’ve done really well so far.

“I said Arsenal at the start of the season with City, but it’s strange how it’s quickly changed. So, I’m looking at Liverpool and Man City now as the main two contenders for the title.”

On the top four, Hutton added: “At the start of the season, I wouldn’t have said Chelsea would have been up there, but I’m starting to see signs from them that they can go on a run and they can compete.

“We know they’re so strong in terms of their squad, so I think they could maintain it. Liverpool Man City will be up there, I think Arsenal will be up there and then it’s one after that for me. Could it be Chelsea?

“Tottenham seem a little bit back now, but then you’ve got Villa that’s right up there as well, so it is very tight. I think it’ll kind of flip-flop between now and the end of the season, but the top three will be Liverpool, Man City and Arsenal, with a lot of clubs fighting for that last Champions League spot throughout the season.”

The Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne upheld Anatoliy Tymoshchuk's appeal and lifted the sanctions against the UAF. The court ruled that there were no grounds for the sanctions at the time they were imposed.

Former Ukrainian national football player Anatoliy Tymoshchuk, who stated that he saw no difference between the Ukrainian and Russian peoples and called Russia's war against Ukraine a "special military operation," won a court case in Lausanne against the Ukrainian Football Association. The court ordered the UAF to lift sanctions against Tymoshchuk, which were imposed after the full-scale invasion for supporting the war. This was reported by Tribuna.com, according to UNN.

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According to the newspaper, the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne upheld the appeal of former football player Anatoliy Tymoshchuk against the decision of the UAF disciplinary committee.

The court reasoned that between the beginning of the full-scale invasion and March 11, 2022, Tymoshchuk did not commit any actions that would have warranted such disciplinary sanctions.

"The UAF has indeed already received a decision from CAS. Unfortunately, the Europeans approached this case as formally as possible and confirmed a partial misunderstanding of the realities in which we live. The position of the Ukrainian football community is unequivocal and has never changed. People like Tymoshchuk have no place in Ukrainian football," the UAF responded.

Addendum Addendum

On March 11, 2022, the Control and Disciplinary Committee of the Ukrainian Football Association decided to deprive Tymoshchuk of his Pro-level coaching license, state awards, honorary titles, all titles of winner and silver medalist of the Ukrainian Championship, the Ukrainian Cup, the Ukrainian Super Cup, to exclude Tymoshchuk from the official register of players of the UAF national teams, and to ban him from football activities in Ukraine for life.

In 2023, Tymoshchuk filed an appeal with CAS, and the case was heard in April 2024. The court has now overturned the decision of the Ukrainian football authorities.

Anatoliy Tymoshchuk, a native of Lutsk, began his football career at the local Volyn team. Later, Tymoshchuk moved to Shakhtar Donetsk, where he played until 2007, after which he moved to Zenit St. Petersburg. From 2009 to 2013, he played for Bayern Munich, and later returned to Zenit. He finished his football career at Kazakh club Kairat, after which he got a job as an assistant coach at Zenit, where he still works.

After the full-scale invasion began, Tymoshchuk continued to work in Russia. At the beginning of the invasion, Tymoshchuk made a controversial statement, saying that Ukraine needed peace for the sake of parents and children.

Recently, Tymoshchuk joined a fundraiser at a Russian auction for the Kursk region.

In December 2022, Tymoshchuk gave an interview to the fan club of the Russian Zenit Fanproject, stating that he sees no difference between the Ukrainian and Russian peoples and calling Russia's war against Ukraine a "special military operation.

"I have lived here for many years, my children go to school here. I see no difference between the people of Ukraine and Russia. We have the same mindset and mentality. "Zenit is my home, I have no plans to leave. Those who say how bad I am, let them remember how many matches I played for the Ukrainian national team and how much I brought to it. The fact that I am silent about "my" does not mean that I support it or not. Everyone has their own position. Mine is that not everything is so clear, so I try not to talk about it," Tymoshchuk said at the time.

Also in December 2022, the Verkhovna Rada adopted a resolution "on the application of personal special economic and other restrictive measures (sanctions) to athletes from the Russian Federation and other states." According to the document, 55 Russian athletes and a Ukrainian, Anatoliy Tymoshchuk, were sanctioned.

In January 2023, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a decree imposing sanctions, including on Anatoliy Tymoshchuk.