KYIV — A
Ukrainian Premier League match on
Wednesday lasted 4 hours and 27 minutes instead of the normal 90 minutes after
being interrupted by air-raid sirens.
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Rukh Lviv and Metalist Kharkiv kicked off their
match at Ukraina stadium in the western city of Lviv at 15:00 local time (12:00
GMT) and finished it at 19:27, with three pauses after sirens sounded.
Metalist eventually won 2–1, with the teams spending
145 minutes in a shelter in total and no strikes being detected in the area.
Ukraine launched its new football season on Tuesday
despite Russia’s ongoing invasion, in an attempt to give a morale boost to the
war-ravaged nation.
Four matches were played on that day but none of
them was interrupted due to air-raid alarms.
Matches are held without spectators due to security
reasons.
Many clubs play their home games not in their own
cities, but largely in the safer western or central regions.
Ukrainian clubs decided in April to end the previous
season early after it were suspended following
Russia’s invasion which began on
February 24.a
On Wednesday Ukraine marks its Independence Day, with the US
warned a day before that Russia could attack Ukrainian government facilities in
the coming days.
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