After the muscle injury he sustained at the club, the midfielder will not recover in time for the second 2026 World Cup qualifier against Azerbaijan and is forced to return to the Catalan team's base.

We remind you that the match with Azerbaijan will take place on September 9 in Baku at the Republican Stadium named after Tofig Bahramov.

Ukraine Squad

Goalkeepers: Georgiy Bushchan (“Al-Shabab”, Saudi Arabia), Anatoliy Trubin (“Benfica” Lisbon, Portugal), Dmytro Ryndzak (“Shaktar” Donetsk).

Defenders: Ilya Zabarnyi (“Paris Saint-Germain” Paris, France), Oleksandr Svatok (“Austin”, USA), Valeri Bondar, Mykola Matviyenko, Yurym Konoplyan (all — “Shaktar” Donetsk), Taras Mikhaylichenko, Vladyslav Dubynchak (both — “Dynamo” Kyiv), Bogdan Mikhaylichenko (“Polesye” Zhytomyr).

Midfielders: Oleksandr Zinchenko (“Nottingham Forest”, England), Yegor Yarmoluk (“Brentford”, England), Ivan Kaluzhnyi (“Metalist 1925” Kharkiv), Mykola Shaparenko, Nazar Volosin (both — “Dynamo” Kyiv), Oleksiy Hutsulyak, Oleksandr Nazarenko (both — “Polesye” Zhytomyr), Georgiy Sudakov (“Benfica” Lisbon, Portugal), Oleksandr Zubkov (“Trabzonspor” Trabzon, Turkey).

Forwards: Roman Yaremchuk (“Olympiacos” Piraeus, Greece), Artem Dovbyk (“Roma” Rome, Italy), Vladyslav Vannat (“Girona”, Spain).