Billionaire Rinat Akhmetov, owner of the football club Shakhtar Donetskannounced the donation on Monday after agreeing to transfer Mudryk for around €70 million ($76 million), plus a possible €30 million bonus, a record amount for a Ukrainian team.
Akhmetovan industrialist whose businesses include the steel plant Azovstal which was destroyed by the Russian assault on the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, moved Shakhtar from its hometown after Donetsk was seized by Kremlin-backed separatists in 2014.
“Today I will allocate $25 million to help our soldiers, defenders and their families”, Akhmetov said in a statement issued on Monday. The money will go to necessities.ranging from providing medical and prosthetic treatment and psychological support to attending to specific requests”, he added.
On the other side of the deal is Chelsea, which was sold by the sanctioned Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of his former Soviet neighbor last year.
Mudryk dressed yesterday with a Ukrainian flag when he was presented to the 40,000 fans who came to the stadium of the ChelseaStamford Bridge, during the break of the London club’s match against the Crystal Palacea sign of continued change at the west London club.
In the early years of the reign of Abramovichwhich began in 2003, the stadium loudspeaker played the Russian folk song Kalinka in honor of its former owner. When the invasion began, some fans waved Ukrainian flags, and the club also expressed its support for Ukraine, even in the last weeks of ownership of Abramovich.
The war has killed tens of thousands of Ukrainians, driven millions from their homes and left millions more without electricity, heat or water. It has also devastated the Ukrainian economy and sunk the wealth of many of its powerful billionaires.
Akhmetov, who before the 2014 Ukrainian Dignity Revolution supported Ukraine’s pro-Russian government, was blamed by many of his compatriots for not doing enough to prevent military conflict when separatists seized much of the Ukraine region. Donetsk.
His fortune has shrunk to $5.5 billion from the $10.8 billion he had before last year’s Russian attack, according to Bloomberg estimates.
Source: Gestion
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