At the fugitive football club trapped in a war zone, the relief effort is off the scale, absolutely staggering.
Forced to flee their own Donbass Arena on the front line and play home games 450 miles away in Kyiv – not to mention Champions League 'home' games exiled in Poland – Shakhtar Donetsk have become angels of mercy in battle-scarred Ukraine.
In an astonishing and wide-ranging humanitarian response to the ravages of pariah Vladimir Putin's senseless war, players have committed part of their wages towards funding major surgery abroad for seriously-injured troops.
