MOSCOW, April 26 Shakhtar Donetsk football club will play in the Ukrainian championship, the transition to the Russian Premier League is out of the question, said the general director of the team, Sergei Palkin. The current draw of the Ukrainian championship, in which Shakhtar was in the lead, was suspended in February. Shakhtar are 13-time champions of Ukraine. «We will never return to Donetsk if it is Russian. We are a Ukrainian club, we will only play in the Ukrainian league and will never play in the Russian championship. This is the main idea that I want to emphasize,” Palkin said in an interview with the BBC. “Shakhtar” left Donetsk in 2014 and have since played home matches in Lviv, Kharkiv and Kyiv.
