Shakhtar Donetsk soccer club launches $25 million aid project

• Shakhtar Donetsk has begun $25 million project for the families of Mariupol soldiers.
• The Heart of Azovstal project was officially launched.
• When Shakhtar secured Mudryk’s transfer to Chelsea FC of English Premier League.

Shakhtar Donetsk, a soccer team in Ukraine, stated on Monday that it had begun a $25 million project for the families of Mariupol soldiers.

“I am allocating the $25 million (UAH 1 billion) today to help our soldiers, defenders and their families. The money will be used to cover different needs – from providing medical and prosthetic treatment and psychological support to meeting specific requests,” Shakhtar president Rinat Akhmetov said in a statement.

“Their acts of bravery are unparalleled in modern history. It is them, their sacrifice and courage that helped contain the enemy in the first months of the war and let all of us feel the inevitability of the Victory of Ukraine now,” Akhmetov added.

The Heart of Azovstal project was officially launched when Shakhtar secured Mykhailo Mudryk’s transfer to Chelsea FC of the English Premier League.

Shakhtar confirmed in a statement on Sunday that they will receive a Ukrainian record-breaking transfer fee of $75 million (or around 70 million euros) for Mudryk, 22, with an additional $35 million (30 million euros) expected as a bonus payment.

Despite being eliminated from the Champions League, Mudryk scored three goals for Shakhtar.

Akhmetov added that he is confident that Ukraine will win the war against Russia, and one day “we will play a friendly against Chelsea at Donbass Arena in a Ukrainian Donetsk.”

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