The president of FC “Rukh” (Lviv) Hryhoriy Kozlovskyy together with Volodymyr Matkivskyy, the president of “Karpaty” and Oleksandr Shevchenko, the chairman of the Lviv Football Association, have contributed financially to help the families of football ultras who died in the war, and transferred to the charity fund 1.5 million hryvnias.

This was reported by the RBC-Ukraine with reference to the site of the “Rukh”.

“The football community is a big family. Football club “Rukh” together with Volodymyr Matkivsky, the president of “Karpaty” and Oleksandr Shevchenko, the head of the Lviv Football Association, joined the fund “Tribune of Heroes” and donated 500 thousand hryvnias to help the families of football fans killed in the war. Once again, with this action we demonstrate: no matter which team we support, we are all together, we are all united by a common goal. We all have the same goal – the victory of Ukraine and support to the people who suffered from war. Taking this opportunity, I would like to urge football people to join the fund,” – Kozlovskyy said.

The initiators of the charity fund “Tribune of Heroes” were Ukrainian football ultras. The purpose of the fund is to provide systematic financial, social and legal support to the families of football fans killed in the war.

“From the first days of the full-scale invasion we began to receive a lot of news about the death of our guys. Our goal is to help the families of the ultras killed in the war. In order for the fund to work, it is very important to have the support of the football community. Here in Lviv we have it. This is an extraordinary event, because Ukrainian football is united around one common goal,” Tikhon Amosov, the founder of the fund said.

According to the co-founder of the fund Dmytro Kukuruza, the war has already claimed the lives of 111 guys who represented the ultras of Ukrainian clubs.