Shakhtar Donetsk

2023 - 2 - 16

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Shakhtar Donetsk Europa League campaign offering Ukraine hope ... (Daily Mail)

LEWIS STEELE IN WARSAW: Some 937 miles away from Donetsk, Shakhtar are set to pick up their European campaign against French club Rennes.

Shakhtar have invited young children Mykyta and Illia Kalimbet to the match in Warsaw. 'We invested money and we bought these players before the war,' explains Palkin. One match we ran to the bomb shelter and stayed for two hours. 'We were playing and heard an air-raid alarm so we ran to the basement! 'When you are playing football, you don't think about the war. He drove 60 hours from there to his homeland of Zagreb. Then we came back and played the second half! My only priority was to stay safe and try to visit my relatives. 'From the first minutes of the invasion, we had to be prepared. We want to make them proud, from deep in our hearts. [Kyiv](/news/kiev/index.html) suburb but the skyline was illuminated by missiles and bombs. Stepanenko and his family fled Kyiv to the safer city of Chernivtsi.

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Taras Stepanenko awoke to find sun rising in Kyiv suburb (NNN)

It was around 5.30am on a cold February morning when Taras Stepanenko's greatest fears became reality. Shakhtar Donetsk's captain rolled over and thought he ...

[CEO](https://nnn.ng/tag/ceo/) Sergei Palkin claims the club lost a generation of talent for free. Your details from Facebook will be used to provide you with tailored content, marketing and ads in line with our Privacy Policy. Shakhtar have invited young children Mykyta and Illia Kalimbet to the match in Warsaw. [Premier League](https://nnn.ng/tag/premier-league/) winners Shakhtar, he found a team without a spine, as 15 players left for free. We’ll ask you to confirm this for your first post to Facebook. ‘We invested money and we bought these players before the war,’ explains Palkin. One match we ran to the bomb shelter and stayed for two hours. ‘We were playing and heard an air-raid alarm so we ran to the basement! My only priority was to stay safe and try to visit my relatives. The sun was yet to rise in this Kyiv suburb but the skyline was illuminated by missiles and bombs. We want to make them proud, from deep in our hearts. You don’t have time to think, you just need to move,’ he says.

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