The start of the spring part of the football season in Ukraine can hardly be called successful for Kyiv's "Dynamo." After the cup failure in Dnipropetrovsk, Mykhailychenko's charges lost two points in the game against "Tavriya," playing to a 0:0 draw.

Ukrainian heavyweight boxer Volodymyr KLYCHKO has declined the services of his trainer Fritz ZDUNEK, reports Lenta.ru, citing the German publication Bild. In the fight against Lamon BREWSTER, scheduled for April 10 in Las Vegas, KLYCHKO Jr.

Unexpectedly quickly, the giants of European football, Italian "Juventus" and English "Manchester United," ended their Champions League campaign. Alex Ferguson's charges failed to take revenge for the defeat in the first game against "Porto," playing only 1:1 in the return match against the Portuguese.

"Dnipro" - "Dynamo" (Kyiv) - 2:0.

In the absence of several decent forwards in Europe at this stage of the tournament, you will not get far on sheer self-sacrifice and the talent of coach Yevhen Kucharevsky alone. And Dnipro had none of them before the game against the French. For Dnipro, Marseille was a team they were expected to get past.

On Sunday, February 29, at around 6 PM, in a car accident that occurred at the intersection of Stolychnoe Highway and Lyubomyrska Street, the captain of the Ukrainian national gymnastics team, 2000 European champion and Olympic medalist in Sydney, Oleksandr Beresh, was killed.

At two o'clock in the morning Kyiv time on February 27, Vitali signed his contract, thereby setting out on the road that will lead him to a bout for the vacant WBC world championship title, where his opponent will be Corrie Sanders.

\nDnipropetrovsk's "Dnipro" lost away to French "Marseille" with a minimal score of 1:0 in the first match of the 1/16 finals of the UEFA Cup. Kucharevsky's charges were in no way inferior to the hosts, and in the first half they even looked more dominant.

World heavyweight champion according to the World Boxing Association (WBA) version, American John Ruiz, has challenged Ukrainian Vitali Klitschko.

\nAfter representatives of the teams in Group 2 of the 2006 World Cup qualifying tournament failed to reach mutual agreement on drawing up the match calendar for the entire cycle, a "blind" draw was held at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich. For the Ukrainian team it was more or less favorable.