Ukrainian Football Federation chief Anatoliy Konkov has

asked the world and Europe’s soccer governing bodies to take measures,

including the imposition of sanctions, towards the Russian Football Union after

three Crimean clubs on Aug. 12 competed in the Russia Cup.

“We bore witness to how the executive committee of the

Russian Football Union is illegally and arbitrarily embracing the Ukrainian clubs

from the Crimea peninsula,” he stated in an Aug. 12

letter to FIFA and UEFA.