What to do while in Ukraine

Euro 2012 co-hosts Ukraine may find themselves in real trouble if their number one keeper Aleksandr Shovkovsky’s injury proves to be serious. Shovkovsky damaged his shoulder in Dynamo Kiev’s against Volyn in the Ukrainian league and may well be out of the European Championships, which kick off on June 8. “It’s serious,”  Yury Semin, Dynamo’s coach, said of his man’s injury. Shovkovsky is to go to Germany for a medical examination, but according to the Kiev team’s goalkeeper trainer, Mikhail Mikhailov, the 37-year-old is sure to miss at least three weeks. The veteran goalie has played 90 games for his country, conceding 73 goals. Shovkovsky was in goal when Ukraine reached the quarterfinals of the FIFA World Cup in 2006. The Ukrainians have lost two of their other first-choice keepers since the start of the year, with Shakhtar’s Aleksandr Rybka getting a two-year ban for doping and Andrey Dikan suffering a serious facial injury keeping goal for Spartak Moscow in the Russian

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Poland's national stadium, where Euro 2012 kicks off in two months, cleared a new hurdle on Tuesday with its first ever club game, pitting Polish league leaders Legia Warsaw against Spanish side Sevilla. The friendly, which ended 2-0 for the Spanish side, was seen by the stadium management as a way for the staff to hone their skills. Drawing 20,000 supporters, it followed the 58,000-capacity arena's February 29 footballing debut, a sell-out friendly between Poland and Portugal that was hailed as a logistical success. Co-hosts Poland kick off the European Championship against Greece on June 8 at the stadium in the heart of the capital. But with concerns about hooliganism running high, matches between Polish clubs have so far been off limits at the 1.9-billion-zloty (453m euro, $591m) ground. Police have underlined the need to improve the security-communications system for higher-risk games. The stadium had been due to make its debut on February 11, hosting the Super Cup between

Ukraine - which will host Euro 2012 in June together with Poland - has urged fans to get vaccinated against measles before visiting as the country gets to grips with fears of a mass epidemic. "If you plan to come to Ukraine, please get vaccinated at home," Oleksandr Kravchuk, deputy head of the state sanitary and epidemiological service, told the Kiev Post. "The situation with measles is unfavourable in our country." The European Centre of Disease Prevention and Control, a European Union agency in charge of fighting infectious diseases, reported a measles outbreak in the former Soviet republic last month with over 5,000 cases registered. The outbreak was concentrated in the western part of the country bordering on Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. "The epidemic is expected to accelerate and spread geographically during the peak transmission season for measles from February to June," ECDC said. The news is yet another blow to Ukraine's hopes of boosting