UEFA: Euro 2012 preparations on course

The announcement came almost exactly one year after Ukraine were given a reprieve by European football's governing body, which had refused to confirm three of their four cities as hosts because of the slow progress of work on hotels, stadiums and other infrastructure.

UEFA secretary general Gianni Infantino said that two of the four stadiums in Ukraine - at Kharkiv and Donetsk - were already finished.

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