Ukrainian cities which were not hosting Euro 2012

First National, 2009. The plot tells about the preparations and intentions of the cities that were not included in the approved list of "hosts" that hosted the matches of the 2012 European Football Championship — Dnipro and Odessa.

Comments: Dnipro City Mayor Ivan Kulichenko (2000–2014); representative of a construction company in Dnipro Volodymyr Butenko; head of the construction complex of the Chornomorets stadium Viktor Luzhansky (speaks russian); head of the Odessa Regional State Administration Mykola Serdyuk (2007–2010).

On the video: views of the Dnipro; Dnipro-Arena stadium; airport; photos and drawings of the planned 5-star hotel; UEFA commission at the stadium; Odessa's central stadium ChMP (inscription in russian; now the Chornomorets stadium); Odessa seaport; stadium reconstruction; Duke monument.

The story was prepared by Lyubov Marchenko, Yevhen Pavlenko, and Yuriy Vesilyk.

Reference: Kyiv, Donetsk, Kharkiv, and Lviv were selected as host cities for the 2012 European Football Championship. The applications of Dnipro and Odessa were rejected.