{"id":1068638,"date":"2022-04-27T14:23:12","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T14:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/27\/the-ukrainian-premier-league-is-terminated-following-russian-invasion\/"},"modified":"2022-04-27T14:23:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T14:23:12","slug":"the-ukrainian-premier-league-is-terminated-following-russian-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/27\/the-ukrainian-premier-league-is-terminated-following-russian-invasion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ukrainian Premier League is terminated following Russian invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/image_2022-04-27_132621012-696x392.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shakhtar Donetsk have been playing friendlies as part of the &#8216;Match for Peace! Let&#8217;s stop the War!&#8217; charity event<br \/>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Ukrainian Premier League season has been terminated because of ongoing conflict in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The championship did not resume after December\u2019s three-month winter break following Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Shakhtar Donetsk were top of the league with 47 points after the last round of games, two points ahead of Dynamo Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>A statement on the UPL website said: \u201cThe standings as of 24 February 2022 will be the final standings of the season and no winners will be awarded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>The statement also confirmed that a working group has been created to discuss the start of next season.<\/p>\n<p>Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kyiv, who hold 29 Ukrainian top flight titles between them, have recently played friendlies to raise funds to aid people affected by the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"y6hVFWPDl4Q\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#039;Go and Sleep&#039; CLOSAG Snubs Critics of Neutrality Allowance -  Adom TV (27-4-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y6hVFWPDl4Q?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shakhtar Donetsk have been playing friendlies as part of the &#8216;Match for Peace! Let&#8217;s stop the War!&#8217; charity event The Ukrainian Premier League season has been terminated because of ongoing conflict in the country. The championship did not resume after December\u2019s three-month winter break following Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine. Shakhtar Donetsk were top of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1068639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[5437,674,2726,5535,10452,6241],"class_list":["post-1068638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-invasion","tag-league","tag-premier","tag-russian","tag-terminated","tag-ukrainian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1068638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}