Less than 10 months ago, prior to
Euro 2020, I was
commenting about a spat between Ukraine and Russia on UKR's jersey for Euro 2020 (ne 2021).
Glory to Ukraine on the jersey was okay but the additional phrase
Glory to the Heroes was interpreted as a rallying cry when you put both together so the latter had to be removed. UKR still was able to keep the complete outline of their country on the jersey despite RUS claiming the Crimea peninsula was no longer part of UKR after annexing it in early 2014.
Well, on Feb 21st, RUS was at it again recognizing two eastern UKR states then three days later attacking UKR from Belarus and western Russia, determined to change the map of UKR again. Over 400 Ukrainian civilians have been killed with the count unfortunately going up every day.
As it relates to soccer, FIFA did a slow burn penalizing RUS,
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