Details of Ukraine's warm-up matches ahead of their 2006 World Cup campaign in Germany.
28 February 2006
Azerbaijan 0-0 Ukraine
Baku, Azerbaijan
The visitors failed to break down their lowly hosts and the closest they came was when Maksim Kalinichenko cracked a shot that ricocheted off the crossbar.
28 May 2006
Ukraine 4-0 Costa Rica
Kiev, Ukraine
Even without Andriy Shevchenko, Ukraine had too much class for Costa Rica and were 3-0 up at half-time with goals from Sergi Nazarenko, Andriy Vorobei, Maksim Kalinichenko, with Olexiy Belik scoring the fourth early in the second half.
2 June 2006
Italy 0-0 Ukraine
Lausanne, Switzerland
Italy stretched their unbeaten run to 18 matches against a defensive Ukraine side, who had striker Andriy Shevchenko watching from the bench.
5 June 2006
Ukraine 3-0 Libya
Wholen, Switzerland
Ukraine enjoyed a comfortable win in their penultimate warm-up game, Volodymir Yezersky heading the first from a 49th-minute corner before Olexiy Belik and Andriy Vorobei added two late goals.
8 June 2006
Luxembourg 0-3 Ukraine
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Ukraine captain Andriy Shevchenko scored in his first game for a month as he returned from injury.
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