Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Anya and her dad Sviatoslav are Ukrainians, hailing from the city of Kryvyi Rih, some 200 miles south of Kyiv.

There will be many Scotland supporters in the stands at Hive Stadium when France are the visitors in round four of the Women’s Six Nations Championship, with their own dreams of, one day, wearing the thistle.
But there will be none whose rugby journey so far comes remotely close to 15-year-old prop Anya, who says, quietly and without any bluster: “My ultimate dream is to play for Scotland.”

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