Shakhtar's sporting director Dario Srna explained how the club manages to invite legionnaires.
"In the winter, we signed two Brazilians - Gomez and Kevin. We paid 12 million euros for one, and 12 million + 3 million in bonuses for the other.
Kevin is a young winger with fantastic potential, and Gomez is an even younger and equally powerful midfielder. The club maintains extremely high standards, despite all the problems we have been facing for so many years. The main thing for us is that these young players want to come.
They choose Shakhtar over other European clubs because they know what we offer them on the pitch. They don't care about the war," Srna said in an interview with Sportske Novosti.