Moscow soccer club Lokomotiv Moscow has sent 65 thousand euros to Ukrainian club Mariupol as payment of debt for the upbringing of footballer Mark Mampassi. About it with reference to the source writes "Championship". Earlier, the international soccer federation (FIFA) banned the club to register new players during three transfer windows (until winter 2027) because of the debt for the player. "The transfer ban from the club will be lifted within a week", - reports "Championship". Lokomotiv Lokomotiv chairman Yuri Nagornykh confirmed in a conversation with Sport-Express that the club has sent a payment to settle the debt and lift the transfer ban. The Mariupol management has not yet commented on the information. This is probably the first case of a payment from a Russian soccer team to a Ukrainian one since the war began. State-owned Russian Railways is the general sponsor and de facto owner of Lokomotiv. According to Sportsa, in 2023, 80% of the club's main revenues were immediately derived from RZD and its subsidiaries. Mampassi's trial at the Court of Arbitration for Sport began back in 2022. There, Lokomotiv representatives tried to prove that Mariupol is a Russian city and does not belong to the jurisdiction of Ukraine, and the club is destroyed and no longer exists as a "subject of soccer", argued Mariupol vice-president Andrei Sanin. In the end, the court ruled in favor of the team from Ukraine. FC Mariupol played in the Ukrainian Premier League before the Russian invasion. After the outbreak of war, the club was forced to suspend its participation in the championship, but retains its professional status. Mariupol representatives reported that Russian shelling has seriously damaged the club's infrastructure - the city's Boyko stadium, the indoor sports complex "Illichivets" and the club's office premises. "Ultra-modern soccer grounds at the club's training base in Primorsky district were completely destroyed by Russian bulldozers already after the occupation of Mariupol, now a military school is being built there," the club said in the spring of 2024. After the invasion of Ukraine, the Russian national team and the country's soccer clubs were suspended from participating in official matches under the auspices of FIFA and UEFA.