The authorities assure that nothing will threaten guests of Euro-2012

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11:00, 27 april 2012
Information Centre Ukraine-2012
The safety of participants and guests of Euro-2012 will be guaranteed, Ukrainian officials are saying.   "We are taking all necessary measures to ensure the safety of guests and participants of the Euro", the Іnterfax-Ukraine news agency reports, quoting Oleksandr Birsan, the head of the Inter-agency Coordination Headquarters for Safety and Security during Euro-2012 under the President of Ukraine. 

According to him, planned anti-terrorism training will take place in Kyiv on Friday evening, in which representatives of various law-enforcement agencies of Ukraine will take part. 

Euro-2012 group matches will be held in June in four cities of Ukraine - Kyiv, Donetsk, Kharkiv and Lviv.   Dnipropetrovsk was one of the candidate cities to host matches of the group stage. There were four explosions in public places in Dnipropetrovsk on Friday. According to the Ukrainian Emergencies Ministry the blasts injured 27 people.

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