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"The match lasted four hours 36 minutes, and this is a new record. The previous longest match was last season's game between FC Rukh and FC Metalist, which lasted four hours 27 minutes. The reason was the same - an air-raid siren," the league said.

It was also a national holiday, celebrating Ukraine’s declaration of independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, and the game between Lviv club Rukh Vynnyky and Metalist took 4-1/2 hours to complete after the teams stopped play four times to find shelter.

The Ukrainian soccer league started its new season earlier Tuesday with Shakhtar Donetsk and Metalist 1925 drawing 0-0 inside Kyiv’s Olympic Stadium, which has a capacity of 65,500 but was without spectators amid the war.

Shakhtar Donetsk and Metalist 1925 played out a 0-0 draw in Kyiv’s empty Olympic Stadium on Tuesday as competitive football returned to war-torn Ukraine with the start of the country’s new Premier League season.

Shakhtar Donetsk and Metalist Kharkiv drew 0-0, in an empty stadium with bomb shelters prepared just in case.