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FC Shakhtar's stadium and training center are in Donetsk, and the club will not move to another place, the club's president, Rinat Akhmetov, has said.

“I’d like to tell everybody and, first of all, our fans that Shakhtar has only one training center and it’s Kirsha. We have only one stadium and it’s Donbass Arena. There aren’t and won’t be any other options. Some might find it difficult to believe in it today, but we will gather over 50,000 [people] in Donbass Arena more than once, so that together with our fans we could see vivid matches and celebrate glorious victories. Today we’re dreaming of Shakhtar’s coming back and playing in Donetsk,” he told the club’s press service on Saturday, Nov. 8.

Akhmetov was commenting on reports in the media that Shakhtar was allegedly going to stay in Lviv for a long time and buy or rent the Arena Lviv stadium, as well as build a training center in western Ukraine.