Ukraine’s Euro 2020 shirt to keep Crimea design, lose slogan

By: The Associated Press Posted: 5:39 AM CDT Thursday, Jun. 10, 2021 Last Modified: 5:39 AM CDT Thursday, Jun. 10, 2021

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NYON, Switzerland (AP) — Ukraine must modify its team shirt for the European Championship after UEFA on Thursday upheld part of a Russian complaint about slogans and a map that included Crimea.

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NYON, Switzerland (AP) — Ukraine must modify its team shirt for the European Championship after UEFA on Thursday upheld part of a Russian complaint about slogans and a map that included Crimea.

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NYON, Switzerland (AP) — Ukraine must modify its team shirt for the European Championship after UEFA on Thursday upheld part of a Russian complaint about slogans and a map that included Crimea.

The yellow-and-blue shirt design unveiled on Sunday angered Russian officials by including an outline of Ukraine’s land territory with the Crimea region which Russia annexed in 2014.

The fresh UEFA ruling allows the map to stay on the shirt, in line with international law which recognizes the Russian annexation as illegal.

Ukraine's Oleksandr Zinchenko, center, warms up along with team mates during a training session in Voluntari, on the outskirts of Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, June 9, 2021 two days before the start of Euro 2020 soccer championship. Russian officials have objected to the Ukrainian national soccer team's shirt for including Russian Crimea in the design for this month's European Championship. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

However, one of the two slogans woven into the inside of the shirt collar — “Glory to the heroes” — must be removed. “Glory to Ukraine” can remain visible on the back of the shirt’s neck.

Russian lawmakers linked the two slogans together as being used by Ukrainian nationalists, some of whom fought with the Nazis against the Soviet Union in World War II.

UEFA said it approved “Glory to the heroes” last December, separate from the other slogan which was allowed two years earlier.

“Following further analysis, this specific combination of the two slogans is deemed to be clearly political in nature, having historic and militaristic significance,” UEFA said.