Watch: Luka Modric interacts with a six-year-old who lost his parents in Ukraine - Russia war

Ukraine is going through its worst crisis as Russia has invaded the country and is struggling to keep the Russians out. A lot of people have lost their loved ones in the war which has been going since the last few months. One such person is a six-year-old boy, who has lost his parents.

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Illia Kostushevych lost both his parents due to continued attacks on his home city, Mariupol. Meanwhile, the boy came into contact with his favorite football player, Darijo Srna. Srna is the former Shakhtar player and the team’s current director of football in FCShakhtar team. Darijo gifted Illia a special phone to talk with Luka Modric, who is former teammate of Darijo.

The boy was surprised to see this.

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6-year-old Illia Kostushevych from Mariupol, Ukraine lost his parents during Russian attacks on the city. Today he received a special call from his hero Luka Modric, thanks to Darijo Srna ❤️

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Talking about war experience, Modric said that a child doesn't realize what is happening around him. The former football player reasoned that a father tries to protect his child which is why a child doesn't know what is going on.

He added that even though he is young, he has experienced a lot of fear in his life. The former Croatian footballer reminisced about her grandfather's killing and how it had an impact on him.

“At that age, you just don’t realise why are these things happening, you know? You are not aware of everything happening around you because father is also trying to protect you, to not think about these things. They saw that something was coming.

“Even though I am still little, I have experienced a lot of fear in my life,” he wrote then. “The fear of shelling is something I am slowly putting behind me.”

“The chetniks killed my grandfather. I loved him so much. Everyone cried … I used to ask if those people who did this and who made us run away from our home can even be called people,” Modric had said in an interview with The Guardian.