The boycott at the political level of the 2018 World Cup in Russia was urged by his foreign colleagues Minister of Youth and Sports of Ukraine Igor Zhdanov. The corresponding letter he posted on Facebook on Wednesday, June 13, just a day before the start of the world sporting event. "I wrote letters to all the ministers responsible for the sport of those 35 countries whose football teams are declared to participate in the World Cup in the country-aggressor of Russia. I appeal to my colleagues to boycott these competitions at the political level, "wrote the Ukrainian. He asked foreign ministers "to show Putin a red card". Accusing our country of all sins with the nostalgia of the Ukrainian postmaidana mantra - "occupation," "violation of the UN Charter," "aggression," "interference in the internal affairs of sovereign countries," "human rights violations," etc.. , - Zhdanov "revealed" Moscow's true goals in connection with mundialem. It turns out that "Russian propaganda uses the 2018 FIFA World Cup to promote the idea of ??returning to" business as usual "". To make this mean, the minister did not decipher. But in the spirit of post-revolutionary slogans, as now accepted in the current Kyiv leadership, babbled about 60 Ukrainian "political victims" of the Kremlin, sitting in Russian jails "on trumped-up charges". "Crimes of Russia against Ukraine and a democratic world order require a more resolute and effective response from the international community," Zhdanov said.. Judging by the fact that for 3 hours under his post left only 2 comments, awe on this topic pretty tired of most users. In the middle of May the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Independent Pavel Klimkin appealed to Ukrainians with an appeal to refuse trips to the Russian Federation for the matches of the championship, and before that the State Border Service of the country also recommended citizens not to visit them "for security reasons". Recall that the Ukrainian team did not go to the final stage of mundialya. However, residents of the country, unlike politicians, do not intend to refuse to participate in the world football holiday.

As it turned out, Ukrainians bought about 5 thousand. tickets for the games World Cup-2018 and, it seems, spit on the calls to boycott the championship and horror stories that it is dangerous to go to Russia. It also became known that the local "Inter" TV channel bought the package of broadcasts of the 2018 World Cup from the National Public Television and Radio Company of Ukraine (NOTU). "Inter" is confident that "millions of Ukrainian fans will watch matches live".