More than 5 million Ukrainians watched the game of the Russian and Croatian national teams. This was reported by the press service of the Ukrainian TV channel "Inter", which shows the matches of the 2018 World Cup live.
The statisticians of the Industrial Television Committee of Ukraine estimated that this broadcast from the stadium in Sochi was watched by 26% of the adult residents of the country whose TVs were on the specified time. "The best match of the 2014-2018 championships in terms of views, one of the best sporting events of 2018 on Ukrainian TV," concluded Inter,. Previously, the most attention of spectators attracted also the game of Russians: a duel between Russia and Spain was watched live by Ukrainian television 4.4 million people. Previously, Ukrainian nationalists threatened the employees of the Inter TV channel, who bought the rights to broadcast the games of the mundial.