Most of the World Cup teams have chosen to base their camps in West Germany. But not Ukraine. We’ll be staying in the East German city of Potsdam. According to this site:
Potsdam, city in northeastern Germany, capital of the state of Brandenburg after the German unification in 1990 (formerly the capital of [...]

Ukraine midfielder Oleksander Rykun has gotten into hot water with his club team Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk and is paying the price. The club has announced that it will release the player for the dreaded “breaches of discipline.” This is code for: the guy hasn’t shown up for training and has shown no interest in [...]

With the World Cup less than three months away, Ukraine continues to look for ways to get prepared. It has been reported in the Ghana press that the African team is trying to arrange a friendly with Ukraine in May. I’m not sure what the thinking is with this one. Ukraine need [...]

Ukraine have unveiled the jersey that Oleg Blohkin’s boys will be wearing at this summers World Cup.
As expected they will keep yellow as the primary colour but have added some funky blue stripes pivoting towards the crest in the centre. Lotto is the manufacturer and it should be available to purchase from July onwards.

Dynamo Kiev’s highly rated midfielder Oleh Gusev was named Ukrainian player of the year last month, narrowly edging out Anatoliy Tymoschuk and Matuzalem of Shaktar Donetsk. Gusev was an integral part of the team that helped Ukraine qualify for the World Cup in Germany, their first major tournament.

Ukraine have been given the honour of being drawn in the so called ‘group of death’ for the Euro 2008 qualifiers. With two former European champions and Euro 2000 finalists in Italy and France set to take pride of place few, if any, would fancy there chances of breaking into the top 2 in the [...]

Yikes.
In a matter of a couple of weeks Ukraine’s two top keepers have gone done with injuries. First starter Olexander Shovkovsky broke his collarbone in a collision 10 days ago and now his backup Maxim Startsev has injured his groin (double yikes).

1 GK SHOVKOVSKIY Oleksandr - (Dynamo Kyiv, UKR)
2 DF NESMACHNIY Andriy - (Dynamo Kyiv, UKR)
3 DF FEDOROV Serhiy - (Dynamo Kyiv, UKR)
4 MF TYMOSCHUK Anatoliy - (Shakhtar Donetsk, UKR)
5 DF YEZERSKIY Vladimir - (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, UKR)
6 DF RUSOL Andriy - (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, UKR)
7 FW SHEVCHENKO Andriy - (AC Milan, ITA)
8 MF SHELAYEV Oleg - (Dnipro [...]

Ease up on the expectations.
That is the message from captain Andriy Shevchenko, who says talk of Ukraine winning the World Cup are simply rubbish.

Ukraine fans breathed a sigh of relief today when they learned that goalkeeper Olexander Shovkovsk’s collarbone surgery was deemed a success by his doctors.