Sergei Palkin soon reported problems to the club related to the war in Ukraine.

General Director of Donetsk Shakhtar Sergiy Palkin commented on the situation with the Gravians, who left the “Girniki” during the war in Ukraine.

" Vaughn literally ignores our calls and groans, close to the graves who came after the Russian invasion, like Tete in Lyon or Solomon Manor in Tottenham. They went on loan and did not return, under contracts, without any financial compensation for Shakhtar.

We expect to withdraw our confession from the court in Lyon within a month. Please understand: Auntie was Shakhtar’s graver, in 2022 he moved to Lyon on loan, but his contract is still with us. І Lyon, having withdrawn the money, sent our graver to another club, respectfully, because Tete is now their graver, without consulting us and, first for everything, withholding financial compensation. Therefore, Lyon took away the pennies from the gravel, which was not due to him.

We wanted to talk to Lyon, and I talked to John Textor several times. The new culture suggests that these operations lay behind the old culture... without telling us anything. That's why we encouraged the ship's progress. We didn’t have any problems with Real Madrid, for example, until Vinicius Tobias: we managed to get along with the manager of Madrid and Florentino Perez, and we found a good language. There was nothing with Lyon.

FIFA didn't help us. Our drinks were lost without a connection, although the situation was abnormal. FIFA does not care about us in its own interests, without worrying about our situation and our difficulties. We are worried about coping with the possibility of insuring FIFA, which obviously has other problems..

You know, neither for our club, nor for our region, nothing comes easy. For the sake of the Gravians, you must understand that they live in hotels, far from their families, who live behind the cordon or in other parts of the country. There are also numerical increases associated with the holding of our matches. It often takes two days to go to either end, to get off the edge and go through all the checks, and then to the place of recognition. These additional exchanges are equal with other clubs, especially in the context of European rivalries, which are not subject to these exchanges.

It’s also the mother’s fault that this situation involves more than just two fates. You will blame the 2014 fate and the Russian invasion of Donbass. Then we had to leave Donetsk, our place, our region, our stadium and move to Lviv. 2022 has become a new stage, and we have actually become nomads, but this is the only way to live,” Palkin said to RMC Sport.

It was previously reported that Shakhtar sold Castillo to Midtjylland.