KIEV, July 15 - Shakhtar Donetsk FC President Rinat Akhmetov has said he believes that a possible Ukrainian-Russian joint football league should be advantageous, first and foremost, to Ukrainian football.

"What is the joint league? From a financial point of view, it's probably advantageous. From the point of view of entertainment, it's advantageous. From the point of view of competitiveness, it's advantageous," the club's press service quoted Akhmetov as saying to reporters during a team training session at the Donbass Arena stadium on Friday.