Leinster's Ukrainian flanker Alex Soroka has raised €35,000 for children's hospital in homeland

Alex Soroka, Leinster Rugby

Leinster’s Alex Soroka has more reason than most to try and alleviate some of the suffering in Ukraine.

The academy flanker was born in Ireland to Ukrainian parents and he has relations and friends still in a country that has had to absorb almost three weeks of war, and the terror and suffering that comes with it, since Russian forces launched their invasion.