On Monday, August 18, a deputy head of Ukraine Presidential Secretariat Andriy Kyslynskiy declared at the official internet site of the President of Ukraine that according to the information which is in his possession as if Grigoriy Surkis has come into created coordinating centre «Election-2010» in Moscow. In view of this Football Federation of Ukraine (FFU) president, UEFA Executive Committee member is compelled to declare the next:

− Already a year ago, immediately after a win in Cardiff I stated my life priorities for the next five years clearly and definitely. In many interviews as to this theme I accentuated the attention of community on the fact that all FFU employees without exception with me at the head are indifferent to politics people so far as none of political project will give such dividends to a society as Euro-2012 can give.

Since then I have not altered my political outlook. So I request to keep my name aside of any speculation arising and to not distract me from urgent issues of the UEFA EURO 2012 preparation. As for accuses of treason, this is surely has nothing to do with me, because a true treason and crime will emerge before our past and future generations once we lose the right to host EURO 2012. I spoke about it to the state officials and I can reassert it again.