Ukraine Welcomes Four Million Happy Fans and Counting

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Ukraine Welcomes Four Million Happy Fans

and Counting

PR Newswire

KYIV, June 19, 2012

KYIV

,

June 19, 2012

/PRNewswire/ --

Around four million foreign guests crossed Ukrainian

border since the beginning of

EURO 2012

, reported

Ukraine's

State Border Guard Service. As international

supporters keep streaming in, UK human rights activist

Clare Dimyon apologized to

Ukraine

on behalf of

Great

Britain

for false accusations in racism and other types

of intolerance.

Four million people and 860 thousand vehicles have crossed the state border

since

June 5

. However, for the duration of the championship Ukrainian guests

have witnessed nothing but hospitality and true unity of all nations, races, and

liberties. British human rights activist Clare Dimyon expressed her bitterness at

the

BBC Stadiums of Hate

material, depicting

Ukraine

as racists and intolerant

country. Dimyon, Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

(awarded for her human rights campaigns in Central and

Eastern Europe

)

apologized on behalf of her home country.

The activist is preparing the film, disproving the statements suggested in

BBC's

video piece. Dimyon said that she had seen many representatives of African

and Asian descent in

Ukraine

, at the stadiums specifically, and she did not

witness them being stressed or uncomfortable or treated intolerantly by the

others.

"I am convinced that I haven't seen any racist moods here, in any case there

were no more than in

London

. That's why I think

BBC

should tell the truth. I am

grateful to Kharkiv and its people for the opportunity to defend

Britain's

good

name and tell the truth to the world," she added.

As a protest against the negative publications in British press about

Ukraine

, on

June 19

British football fans will carry a coffin during their march in Donetsk

tonight. The coffin and "Campbell you're wrong!" signs are called to signify that

British supporters disagree with the statement made by former

England

captain

Sol Campbell, who warned British fans to stay away from

Euro 2012

. He

recommended fellow countrymen to watch at home on TV, for otherwise they

would "risk it coming home in a coffin". "How could he say that?

Ukraine

is a

great country and Donetsk is a wonderful city," - commented a fan from

London

in Donetsk: "And because of his [Campbell's] statement so many of our

nationals didn't make it here."