Ukraine’s Euro 2020 shirt features a map that includes Crimea -- a region annexed by Russia in 2014
It's a move that has irked Russia.Andrii Pavelko, president of the Ukrainian football association, released pictures of the Euro 2020 shirt on Facebook on Sunday. "This is the most valuable outline of our country for all of us," Pavelko wrote. "A single and indivisible homeland with the Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kiev, my native Dnipro, Lviv, Odessa and all cities and villages, where the main melody from childhood is the melody of the national anthem.
The shirt will also feature the slogan"Glory to Ukraine" on the back, and"Glory to the heroes" inside the collar.Zakharova criticized the inclusion of the phrases, which she connected to Ukrainian nationalists who fought alongside the Nazis in WWII."Kiev is apparently seeking to distance this slogan from its uncomfortable origin and fill it with a new positive meaning to make the entire world take it as a progressive one," she said.
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