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Soccer-Shakhtar Donetsk to allocate $25 million for aid in Ukraine

Ukrainian club Shakhtar Donetsk will allocate $25 million to aid soldiers and their families, president Rinat Akhmetov said on Monday, a day after receiving a record transfer fee for winger Mykhailo Mudryk from Premier League club Chelsea.

Akhmetov added that Shakhtar would play a friendly against Chelsea at their Donbass Arena in "a Ukrainian Donetsk".

Following the transfer of Mudryk to Chelsea on Sunday, Shakhtar said they "will receive 70 million euros ($76 million) for the player and another 30 million euros is envisaged as a bonus payment."

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