Roman Abramovich is selling Chelsea before the UK government can seize the football club after Russia invasion of Ukraine.
Roman Arkadyevich Abramovich is a Russian oligarch, billionaire, businessman, and politician. Abramovich enriched himself in the years following the collapse of the Soviet Union, obtaining Russian state-owned assets at prices far below market value in Russia's controversial loans-for-shares privatization program
Chelsea Football Club, often referred to as Chelsea, is an English professional football club based in Fulham, West London. Founded in 1905, the club competes in the Premier League, the top division of English football.
On 24 February 2022, Russia launched a large-scale military invasion of Ukraine, one of its neighbouring countries to the southwest, marking a steep escalation to a conflict that began in 2014. Several officials and analysts called the invasion the largest conventional military attack in Europe since World War II.
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