Appeals of Ukraine to hold protest actions in Russia during the World Cup, except as extremist, can not be called. However, in this way, Kiev will not just lay a pig to Moscow - it will spoil the holiday for all sports fans in the world, believes Deputy Foreign Minister Oleg Syromolotov. According to him, "Moscow drew attention to the recent provocative statement of the Ukrainian minister with attempts to spur the representatives of various inadequate public to antisportive extremist actions," RIA Novosti writes.. "In conditions when the Ukrainian national football team failed to make it to the World Cup in Russia, we did not expect anything other than attempts to spoil the general sports festival," the diplomat admitted..

Earlier, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nezalezhnaya, Pavel Klimkin, said that Kiev was negotiating with various fan organizations about arranging various actions with political overtones in Russia during the World Cup 2018.

FIFA World Cup in 2018. will be held in Russia from June 14 to July 15. For the tournament, in addition to the host team, teams from Brazil, Iran, Japan, Mexico, Belgium, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Germany, England, Spain, Nigeria, Costa Rica, Poland, Egypt, Iceland, Serbia, Portugal, France, Uruguay , Argentina, Colombia, Panama, Senegal, Morocco, Tunisia, Switzerland, Croatia, Sweden, Denmark, Australia and Peru.