Donetsk "

This was announced by the general director of the club Sergei Palkin.

" However, we began to " We understood that, having gone to the USA, we would play a maximum of two games there. And purely economically, it turned out that we would be at a loss. We wanted to go there to give the money we earned to the army, to refugees, for the people of Ukraine.

And what should we give if we still find ourselves in debt? They just calculated and realized that economically we do not fit into the budget. If there were more games, we would leave. We needed at least four matches, and then we would definitely go.

And it didn't work out that way. We will prepare in Turkey,"

Recall that after the first half of the season, Shakhtar are in second place and five points behind Dnipro-1. At the same time, the Pitmen have a game in hand. The Pitmen will play their first match of the new year against Rennes on February 16 in the playoffs of the Conference League.

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