For Ukraine’s soccer team, the Euros offer their beleaguered nation a moment in the sun.
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Shakhtar has not played a game at Donbas Arena for a decade. The 2014 Russia-engineered insurgency in eastern Ukraine saw pro-Kremlin forces eventually seize Donetsk and drive its top team to Lviv, in Ukraine’s west. In the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Shakhtar’s existence turned all the more nomadic — the club has “hosted” European opponents in stadiums in Poland and Germany.
They narrowly missed out on qualification for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar but secured a berth via playoffs in March into this summer’s continental tournament. In the last Euros, as the tournament is colloquially called, Ukraine reached the quarterfinals. But that was before the war exploded at home.
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