Ukrainian referees assigned to Champions League and Conference League qualifiers

UEFA has announced that three Ukrainian officiating crews will take charge of matches in the early qualifying rounds of the Champions League and the Conference League. Klym Zabroda will referee the first-leg match of the Champions League first qualifying round between Armenia's Ararat-Armenia and Latvia's Riga on July 7. His assistants are Valentyn Kutsev and Vitaliy Skoblya, while Denys Shurman and Viktor Kopiyevskyi will handle VAR duties. The following day, July 8, Dmytro Panchyshyn will oversee the Champions League qualifier between Kazakhstan's Kairat and Montenegro's Sutjeska. He will be supported by assistants Dmytro Zaporozhenko and Volodymyr Vysotskyi, with Mykola Balakin and Oleksiy Derevinskyi on VAR. On July 9, Dmytro Kubryak will take charge of the Conference League first qualifying round clash between Montenegrin side Petrovac and Lithuania's Žalgiris. His assistant referees are Viktor Nyzhnyk and Maryna Striletska.