Ukrainian central defender Yaroslav Rakitskiy will continue his career in the Turkish Championship, Milliyet reports..

According to the source, the 32-year-old football player is negotiating the final details of the contract with the Adana Demirspor club.. It is expected that in the near future Rakitskiy will join the team, which will go to a training camp in Italy.

Earlier, the media reported that the defender will officially join Shakhtar Donetsk.

Yaroslav Rakitskiy played for the Pitmen from 2006 to 2019, after which he moved to Zenit St. Petersburg. After a full-scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine, the defender terminated the contract with the Russian club and left the territory of the Russian Federation.

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Previously, Shakhtar named all the opponents at the training camp in the Netherlands.