Shakhtar CEO Sergei Palkin commented on the fact that FIFA did not consider the issue of expelling Russia from the organization at a meeting held on March 31 in Qatar.

The International Football Federation has deprived three countries of membership in the organization - Pakistan, Zimbabwe and Kenya, but not the Russian Federation, which unleashed a full-scale war in Ukraine.

" All domestic tournaments are held under the auspices of FIFA and UEFA. Exclusion from FIFA says football is coming to an end. They can organize self-proclaimed championships, but it won't be the same..

There was no vote at the FIFA Congress to exclude Russia, but Pakistan, Zimbabwe and Kenya were excluded, although these three countries taken together did not cause such damage as Russia does. Those countries were expelled for internal corrupt things, as I understand it.

We will continue to put pressure on FIFA. If Russia is not expelled from this organization, when the whole world is against it - this is strange and does not fit into the head.

When people sit in the FIFA headquarters and look out the window at Lake Geneva, they see some other realities. Perhaps they should have sent their people to Mariupol and Kharkiv so that they would take this more seriously,"

Earlier, UEFA and FIFA applied sanctions against Russia due to the invasion of Ukraine - UEFA excluded Russian football clubs from European competitions, and FIFA deprived the Russian team of the right to play in the playoffs for the 2022 World Cup. Despite this, the Russian Football Union is still a member of UEFA and FIFA..