MOSCOW, June 2, Vasily Bogdanov. Honorary President of the Russian Football Union (RFU) ) Vyacheslav Koloskov, commenting on the appeal of the former striker of the Brazilian national team Pele to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a request to stop the special operation in Ukraine, suggested that the Brazilian appeal to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky in the same way. On Wednesday, before the start of the semifinal match of the mini-tournament for entering the World Championship in football in Qatar, in which the teams of Ukraine and Scotland met (3: 1), Pele turned to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a request to stop the special operation in Ukraine. The three-time world champion published an open letter on Instagram *. «Why not Pele, in this case, write to Vladimir Zelensky so that Ukraine would stop genocide of the Russian population, indulge the Nazis and engage in militarization. What prevented such appeals from being made for the previous eight years? Probably, this is personal initiative, but I'm not sure that he knows all the details and reasons for the start of the special operation.As a peace-loving person, Pele certainly wants world peace.And yet this does not exempt him from knowing the subject and understanding how feasible what he asks,» Koloskov said.
