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Brazilian soccer legend Pele made a public plea on Wednesday to Russian President Vladimir Putin to end his “wicked” and “unjustifiable” invasion of Ukraine, minutes before Ukraine’s national team played in a World Cup qualifying game.

“I want to use today’s game as an opportunity to make a request: Stop this invasion. No argument exists that can justify violence,” Pele said in a statement published on Instagram. “This conflict is wicked, unjustifiable and brings nothing but pain, fear, terror and anguish.”

Pele and Putin last met in Moscow in 2017 during the Confederations Cup, a championship held before the World Cup.“When we met in the past and exchanged smiles accompanied by a long handshake, I never thought one day we would be as divided as we are today,” wrote Pele, who served as Brazil’s first minister of sports in the 1990s.Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked the team for “two hours of happiness, something we have become unaccustomed to.

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First resurrection in Rev 20:6 just ended on 20/05/2022. Rev 14:13 will start anytime very soon

Wa phapha Pele... Ungenaphi 🙄

Pele 😂😂😂😂

Pele must flipping keep politics out of his mouth.

Msunu ka pele

He's stuck in corruption Brazil, I have never heard him say anything about that

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