The map highlighted Ukraine, but did not include the Crimean Peninsula as part of the country's territory. It also appeared ...

Vladimir Putin was dealt a blow with Ukraine's incursion into Russia's Kursk oblast but his forces ended the year with ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has long vowed to end Russia's occupation of Crimea, which Moscow annexed in 2014.

World football's governing body has removed the image omitting Crimea from Ukrainian territory, which Kyiv called an ...

Fifa has apologised to the Ukrainian Association of Football for displaying a map of the country during its World Cup ...

FIFA has apologized to the Ukrainian soccer federation for displaying a map during its World Cup qualifying draw that ...

Writing on X, Tykhy said that Fifa had not only "acted against international law" but had also "supported Russian propaganda, ...

The International Football Federation (FIFA) announced that the map shown in the broadcast of the draw for the European ...

The Ukrainian Football Association wrote a letter to FIFA expressing its concerns and questioning the "redrawn" map.

The controversy arose last week during the European qualifier draw for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, set to take place in the US, ...

Russia, which has been banned from FIFA competitions because of the military invasion of Ukraine, has illegally occupied Crimea since 2014 ... “We fixed the map for you and expect a public ...

ZURICH (AP) — FIFA apologized to the Ukrainian soccer federation for displaying a map during its World Cup qualifying draw that excluded Russia-occupied Crimea from the country’s territory.