Shakhtar Donetsk has for decades been one of Eastern Europe’s premier soccer clubs. It has won Ukraine’s premier league five years straight, and it’s $400 million Donbass Arena played host to the Euro 2012 championships
But for nearly a year, as war rages in eastern Ukraine, the 50,000 seat stadium has sat empty, damaged by shelling, and the club has been displaced, along with more than 1 million residents of the regions. Over 6,100 others have been killed, many in Donetsk
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Shakhtar now lives in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, and plays …read more
Source: Mashable
