A match between the breakaway republics of Donetsk and Luhansk achieved its goal of offering local people a brief return to normalityAs the likes of Chelsea, Everton and Manchester United returned to the football turf this weekend at the start of the new season, thousands of people in the rebel-held city of Donetsk in Ukraine took to their seats ahead of a match which, in their eyes, far surpassed the antics of the Premier League.Teams from the war-torn country’s two self-proclaimed people’s republics, Donetsk (DNR) and Luhansk, kicked off the first ‘separatist derby’ as locals indulged in a brief and …read more
Source: The Guardian
