Ukrainian club Vorskla Poltava have said they cannot guarantee that their Europa League game against Arsenal on Thursday will go ahead as planned.
UEFA moved the game from Poltava to the capital, Kiev, on Tuesday after the Ukrainian parliament voted to introduce martial law in parts of the country, not including either city.
Vorskla vice-president Oleh Lysak said on Wednesday that the club have not received confirmation from Kiev’s Olympic Stadium that it will host the game.
There are also unresolved questions about how ticket sales for two stadiums can be managed.
The Olympic Stadium hasn’t given us any kind of confirmation or any other kind of answer,” Lysak said. He added that Vorskla’s honorary president, Kostyantyn Zhevago, had suggested Arsenal were reluctant to travel to Poltava.
“For the honorary president it’s a puzzle why Sporting [Lisbon] and Qarabag could travel and stay here, but Arsenal can’t,” Lysak said.
“Of course there are subjective and objective reasons related to martial law, but we are not a region which has come under the martial law order.”
UEFA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Ukraine’s parliament voted to introduce martial law in some areas after Russian border guards fired on and seized three Ukrainian naval vessels in the Kerch Strait on Sunday.
Russia has detained 24 crewmen, of which Ukraine says six are injured.