Everton remain in talks with Dynamo Kiev about a pre-season friendly at Goodison Park.
The Blues have offered to host Dynamo for a match that would see funds raised for the humanitarian effort in Ukraine. A preliminary date for the fixture has been scheduled for Friday, July 29 and Everton are hopeful details can be finalised in the coming days.
Should the game go ahead it would be the fourth pre-season friendly listed for the Blues and would currently be their final one before the new Premier League season.
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Details of talks between Everton and Dynamo Kiev were revealed by the club's majority shareholder Farhad Moshiri in an open letter to supporters in June. The wide-ranging letter focused on the disappointment of the Blues ending up in a relegation battle last season and accepting "mistakes have been made and for that I want to apologise to all of you".
Announcing the potential link up with Dynamo Kiev, Moshiri said: "Finally, we cannot forget the ongoing atrocity occurring every day in Ukraine. The response of the fans, the players and management and their support for Vitalii Mykolenko, his country and people who are still suffering because of this inhumane assault has been heartfelt and truly amazing. The club has already made an important contribution to the Disaster Emergency Committee’s Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal and I can confirm that we have offered a friendly match at Goodison Park to Dynamo Kyiv to raise additional funds to support the Ukrainians – details of this will be made available soon."
In March, Everton donated £250,000 to the Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal, with chairman Bill Kenwright and Moshiri matching the figure, lifting the contribution to a total of £500,000. The branding of the DEC appeal was later placed on the club's shirt sleeves for the final weeks of the season.
Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine the club suspended sponsorship agreements with Russian companies USM, Megafon and Yota after Alisher Usmanov, owner of USM and its affiliated companies, was sanctioned by the European Union due to his links to Vladimir Putin.
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