How a rip-off of Ukraine’s Zorya Luhansk are climbing Russia’s pyramid

Zarya’s players celebrate victory in their match against Sevastopol-2.Photograph: Sergei Malgavko/TASSOn 12 April a new club played its first game in Russia’s football pyramid. A healthy enough crowd gathered at Novokolor Arena in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, 20 miles from the border with Ukraine’s occupied territories, encouraged by a slick buildup on social media. They watched “Zarya Luhansk” begin their slog through the Third League, the fifth tier of a complic