BERLIN (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko urged his country's allies to consider boycotting the 2018 football World Cup in Russia if Moscow does not pull all its troops out of his territory, in a German newspaper interview published on Monday.
Poroshenko told Bild he preferred to keep football and politics separate but this was not possible when Ukrainian club Shakhtar Donetsk was having to play 1,200 km (750 miles) away in Lviv because Donetsk was occupied by pro-Russian separatists.
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