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European football's top competition seems a world away from the bitter war in eastern Ukraine. And Ukraine's champions have had to flee their home at the centre of the conflict to survive. Shakhtar Donetsk are normally based in the biggest city held by pro-Russian separatists, who took control of Donetsk in April and have been battling Ukrainian forces ever since.

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