The Croatian Football Union has published its official position regarding the incident with the chanting of "Glory to Ukraine" members of the national team after the victory over the Russian team at the World Cup.
"The Croatian Football Association would like to emphasize that the aforementioned statements are simply a response to the numerous support messages received from Ukraine during the World Cup 2018, given the great contribution that Vida and Vukojevic made when they competed for Dynamo,.
Nevertheless, the Croatian Football Federation drew the attention of both Vidkoyevych and Vukojevic, as well as all other members of the team, that they should refrain from any messages that might in the future be interpreted as political, "the official website of the organization.
The species and breeder of Kiev "Dynamo" Ognjen Vukojevic recorded a video in which they conveyed a kind of greetings to the Ukrainian fans. Vida at the beginning of the video scanned "Glory to Ukraine". Note, the Croatian media explained their statements as a joke. And recently it became known that in FIFA they decided not to punish Vida for his words.
Recall that 9 countries, including Ukraine, Australia, Finland, Japan, Denmark, Iceland, Great Britain, Poland, Sweden, declared a diplomatic boycott of the World Championship in Russia. The reasons for this were the Russian Federation's invasion of Ukraine and Syria, the poisoning of Russian ex-intelligence agent Sergey Skripal in Britain, the starvation of Ukrainian political prisoners, including the director Oleg Sentsov, and the systematic violation of human rights in the Russian Federation.
Unlimited hunger strike Sentsov announced May 14, 2018. His main demand is the release of more than 60 Ukrainian political prisoners who are behind bars in Russia. This requirement of the director was supported by the US State Department, the EU, the Canadian Parliament and.
In 2015, a Russian court illegally sentenced Sentsov to 20 years in a strict-security colony. The actions in support of the director were held all over the world, including in Russia.