Zorya midfielder Vyacheslav Churko is out for an extended period of time due to injury, the TaToTake Telegram channel reports.
The Luhansk club player was injured during a training session. He suffered a torn cartilage in his knee, and will undergo surgery in a week.
"The fact that we train on an artificial field probably had an impact. That is, they mixed artificial with grass - perhaps because of this.
An hour of training has passed, we did a lot of things on the artificial field, diagonals, all sorts of things. At one point, I made a pass 5-7 meters away and just felt a sharp pain in my knee. I immediately went to the doctor, he started looking at it and made an appointment for an MRI, because I couldn't even bend my leg 90 degrees.
I called Dima Skibinsky, Shakhtar's doctor. I have known him for a long time and trust him completely. I will have surgery on Saturday, the doctor said to expect 6-8 months before recovery," Churko said.