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Liverpool fans are being offered accommodation in Kiev for FREE after generous locals decided to strike back over rising hotel costs.

Jurgen Klopp’s side travel to Kiev to take on Real Madrid on May 26, with some supporters being charged almost £2000 a night on websites such as AirBNB and Booking.com, leading to 27-year-old Victor Kylymar and friends to set up the ‘Kyiv Free Couch’ Facebook page for visiting supporters.

The page reads: “As hotels are booked in Kyiv on 26 May, and many football fans are looking for the place the stay after the final game, local people are ready to host for free.”

Hosts are instructed to leave a comment explaining how many fans they can host (and what team they support if they wish), before fans can comment on the posts to organise their stay.

(Image: Photo by Genya Savilov/EuroFootball/Getty Images)

Kylymar, who has two Liverpool fans staying with him on May 26, told the ECHO that he was motivated to set up the page with friends after being shocked by rising prices.

He said: “Three days ago we were searching Facebook and a lot of Ukrainian friends were sharing screenshots of AirBNB and Booking.com, showing horrible conditions of accommodation which is available in Kiev for an unbelievable price. You can rent a whole building for months, but they want to charge for one night.

“Kiev is a big city, there are three million people living here. We thought that it wouldn’t be a problem for the tourists to be hosted in flats and we thought that people could even do this for free.

“We put this group of Facebook because there is such sites such as couchsurfing, but it’s not so easy to register, so we thought that Facebook is a good network for people here in Kiev, as well as fans of Real Madrid and Liverpool. It was like ‘let’s try, if it works then great, if not it’s no big deal!’”

In just three days the Facebook group has almost 1000 members and Kylymar, who works at Kiev’s national university, says that the group currently has 100 opportunities currently available for accommodation.

Kylymar admits he’s not even the biggest football fan - but he believes Kiev has an “obligation” to give football supporters the best experience possible.

And he wants fans to leave Kiev with nothing but good memories of Ukraine - whatever the result.

He said: “I’m not a big football fan. I like watching matches but I’m not keen on one team.

“But the final of the Champions League is a big event, and for Kiev it’s not just to earn money, it’s an obligation to host this at a high level and to prepare good conditions for a reasonable price and offer good conditions for people.

“It’s not like monopoly, doing whatever we want. This is a common event for all of Europe and to use this to make money is not the best idea.

He added: “It’s not even accommodation, it’s (about having) a good experience. These fans will live with families and they will produce all the necessary information about Kiev and they will be cultural ambassadors of Ukraine.

“We need it these days because we have faced war with Russia and there has been a lot of propaganda, fake news about Ukraine. So once people come here they can see what is happening, speak with people who live here and understand who we are, what we want and so on.”