The national teams of the Netherlands and Germany played their second match of the UEFA EURO 2012 Group B in the Metalist Stadium in Kharkiv. Germany won 2-1.
After the final whistle, Kharkiv fans rushed the field en masse, and began to provoke the fans of FC "Obolon". The fight lasted about a minute, until the police intervened.
The 2012 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as Euro 2012, will be the 14th European Championship for national football teams organised by UEFA.
FC Dinamo Bucharest loses FC Metalist Kharkiv 2-0 at a match played in the National Arena in the Romanian capital, Bucharest, as part of the UEFA Europa League play-offs rounds.
The Netherlands, recent World Cup finalists, score their first goal against Germany in the UEFA Euro 2012 Championship. The Netherlands lost to Germany 1-2.
Some 1,000 supporters of Yulia Tymoshenko, a former prime minister and current leader of the Batkivschyna All-Ukrainian Association party and about 3,000 of her adversaries rally for her release outside the Kharkiv Appeal Court.
Some 1,500 supporters of Yulia Tymoshenko, a former prime minister and current leader of the Batkivschyna All-Ukrainian Association party, and about 2,000 of her adversaries are rallying outside the Kharkiv Appeal Court.
Four thousand supporters and opponents Tymoshenko rally in Kharkiv, set up rival pickets. Ukraine once again postponed the new trial of jailed ex-premier Yulia Tymoshenko to give the former Orange Revolution leader time to recover from back pain.
The Ukrainian People's Party protested the anniversary of the signing of the 2010 Kharkov Agreement by staging a mock sinking of Russia's Black Sea Fleet in Kiev's Taras Shevchenko Park.
As part of continuing complaints against the regime of Ukrainian President Yanukovych, Svoboda and other opposition groups protested in Kiev over several issues they believe are detrimental to Ukrainian sovereignty.
MPs demand to summon General Prosecutor Viktor Pshonka on reports of Yulia Tymoshenko being beaten. Tymoshenko has been on hunger strike since 20 April 2012.
The Ukrainian military are trying to revive the aristocratic traditions of using a ball for the cadets, as a way of bringing them into adulthood. Ukraine, 11/12/2010
With heavy snow on the Ukrainian roads and the addition of potholes and damaged roads, drivers are left with huge car repair bills after blindly driving into potholes.
More than 3,000 nationalists marched with torches to commemorate their hero Stepan Bandera who was a Ukrainian politician and one of the leaders of Ukrainian national movement in occupied Western Ukraine (Galicia), who headed the OUN.
Unmoved by the protests, the judge at Kyiv's Pechera District Court fined Tymoshenko the equivalent of $2,000 for refusing to attend the hearing into the killing of a Ukrainian parliamentarian more than 16 years ago.
Spain National Team Defends Title. Spain beat Italy 4-0 in the final of the European Championship to become the first nation to retain soccer’s European Championship title and the only one from the continent to win three straight major competitions.
Spain National Team Defends Title Of European Champion. For the third consecutive major tournament, Spain's outstanding goalkeeper and captain lifted the trophy.
Dance teams from the Ukrainian cities of Donetsk and Nikolaev danced on Kiev's Khreshchatyk street and Independence Square for a place in the next round of a competition to determine the dance capital of Ukraine.
Around 500 fans of different football clubs gathered near the building of Kiev Court of Appeal, buyout hears an appeal in the case of family Pavlichenko, accused of murdering a judge.
About five thousand football fans from all around the Ukraine march through the central part of Kiev, protseting what they believe is an illegal sentence of father and son Pavlichenko.
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