PARIS – The Uefa Foundation for Children will grant €1 million to charity initiatives focusing on children in Ukraine affected by Russia’s invasion, the president of European football’s governing body, Aleksander Ceferin, said on Tuesday.
Russia calls its actions in Ukraine a “special military operation”.
The foundation will grant a further €100,000 emergency aid fund to the Football Association of Moldova, which is working with humanitarian organisations to help children and refugees who have fled Ukraine.
“We are going through unprecedented times, with thousands of Ukrainian families seeking shelter in our country,” Football Association of Moldova president Leonid Oleinicenco said.
The emergency aid fund will also partly be used to provide children’s hospitals in Ukraine with medicines and supplies.
