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Donetsk - Rinat Akhmetov, well-known Ukrainian businessman and president of the football club Shakhtar, is now in Donetsk, Andriy Shyshatsky, the head of the Donetsk regional state administration, has reported. 

“He is home in Donetsk and we talk regularly,” he told a press conference on Monday, Feb.24.

Shyshatsky also said he spoke with Akhmetov many times in the past few days and he has always spoken for peaceful settlement of conflicts.