MOSCOW, June 10. /TASS/. The Russian Football Union (RFU) believes that the recently forced changes to the design of the Ukrainian national team kits were insufficient, the RFU press service said in a statement on Thursday.

Earlier in the day, the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) obliged the Ukrainian national team to remove a politically-inciteful slogan from its uniforms ahead of the 2020 Euro Cup.

"UEFA has taken into account the RFU stance and partially upheld our appeal," the RFU statement reads. "However, we still believe that even after the introduced changes, the outfit of the Ukrainian national team is still politicized and poses a dangerous precedent."

The Ukrainian national team’s uniforms for the upcoming championship featured slogans chanted by Ukrainian nationalists namely: ‘Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the heroes!’ The uniforms also contained a blurred image outlining Ukraine’s state borders, which include the territories in Donbass and also the territory of Russia’s Crimea.

UEFA said in its statement on Thursday that following a thorough analysis "this specific combination of the two slogans is deemed to be clearly political in nature, having historic and militaristic significance."

"This specific slogan on the inside of the shirt must therefore be removed for use in UEFA competition matches, in accordance with article 5 of the UEFA Equipment Regulations," according to the statement.

However, the European governing body ruled to maintain its position regarding "the design element on the front of the Ukraine national team shirt."

"Considering that the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 68/262 which was widely approved by the member states, recognizes the territorial borders as broadly depicted by the design, UEFA does not require any modifications of this design element as it meets the criteria laid out in article 12 of the UEFA Equipment Regulations," according to UEFA.

"UEFA also confirmed that the slogan on the outside of the shirt "Glory to Ukraine" was approved in 2018 and reiterated that UEFA considers this to be in accordance with articles 13 and 19 of the UEFA Equipment Regulations," the statement from UEFA said. "This slogan on its own may be considered as a generic and non-political phrase of general national significance and therefore may be used on the national team shirt."

The RFU announced on Tuesday that it had filed an official letter with the Union of European Football Associations requesting the European football body study the allegedly politically-motivated slogan on the Ukrainian national team’s uniforms ahead of the 2020 UEFA Euro Cup.

In its letter to the UEFA, the RFU asked the organization to "focus on the use of political slogans displayed on the uniforms of the Ukrainian national team. The slogans displayed contradict the basic principles of UEFA’s regulations regarding the prohibition of all political manifestations."

On Tuesday, the world governing football body, FIFA, announced to TASS that it was up to the Union of European Football Associations to decide on national teams’ design of uniforms for the 2020 UEFA Euro Cup.

Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said commenting on Thursday on the UEFA decision in regard to uniforms of the Ukrainian national team for the 2020 UEFA Euro Cup that "This is UEFA’s prerogative. Sports must be beyond politics.".