Ricky Van Wolfswinkel put Sporting ahead before Argentinian striker Jonathan Cristaldo leveled for the Ukrainians.
Platini added that "today the Ukrainians and the Poles are working and are advancing".
This is why so many Ukrainians find themselves amongst the population of Microsoft developers.
In 1991, 80% of Ukrainians voted in a referendum to leave the Soviet Union.
Ukrainians may not like Mr Kuchma much, but they distrust Mr Symonyenko even more.
ECONOMIST: Hope for a Ukrainian recovery is ever more distant
Ukrainians are good at making do with modest pleasures, but the scene is depressing for all that.
Haye, 29, said that trainer and manager Adam Booth would enter negotiations with the Ukrainians later this week.
Last year Ukrainians crossed the border with Poland 6m times, Belarussians 4m times.
To take up the slack, many Ukrainians who live near their western frontier have become dependent on border trade.
The Ukrainians were told it would be used as a floating casino (they sold it without weapons or engines).
The group offers medical, legal and vocational aid, and helps to repatriate non-Ukrainians.
But the future into which Ukrainians are peering is fraught with gloomy uncertainty.
It remains to be seen whether those monuments will bring Ukrainians together in remembrance, or divide them along political lines.
Meanwhile, disillusioned Ukrainians fear that the new government will be as preoccupied with nest-feathering and back-stabbing as the old one.
ECONOMIST: The dream of a democratic, non-corrupt Ukraine may die
Only 56% of Ukrainians believe their country will be able to organise Euro 2012 properly according to another research agency.
Buffet-style, fast food chain Puzata Hata, or Burly Hut (24 Sahaidachnoho Street), is where Ukrainians grab their lunches and dinners.
The numbers may rise as more Ukrainians and others get multiple-entry visas for Poland, but the border is making its presence felt.
Opinion polls suggest that Ms Tymoshenko, who is no angel and mistrusted by many Ukrainians, posed no real threat to Mr Yanukovich.
Yet at the same time they ought to make it easier for other Ukrainians to visit the West for study, trade and tourism.
Carsten Janker gave Bayern a seventh minute lead only for Sergei Rebrov to level for the Ukrainians five minutes into the second half.
And when decadent parades sweep European and American streets for Mardi Gras, Ukrainians stand by their forefathers munching on pancakes during the Pancake Week celebrations.
Belarussians, Germans, Jews, Lithuanians, Slovaks and Ukrainians, who make up around 1m of Poland's 39m people, are setting up cultural centres, schools and religious centres.
Leszek Balcerowicz, the Polish finance minister who has overseen Poland's economic reforms, was in Kiev, Ukraine's capital, last week, once more urging Ukrainians to reform.
The few top Ukrainians brought to book, including a former prime minister appointed by Mr Kuchma, have been arrested by foreign police on trips abroad.
The five Ukrainians and three Russians released Tuesday after 19 hours at gunpoint were employees of contractor Inter Energo Servis (IES) building a power plant in Baghdad.
Two Ukrainians are facing attempts to have them imprisoned for allegedly defying a prohibition on the disposal of eastern European property linked to jailed ex-billionaire Sean Quinn.
Diplomats say a boycott would be detrimental primarily to the millions of Ukrainians who either back other political parties or show very little interest in politics altogether.
Recently, Russia has accused the Ukrainians of supplying arms to Georgia during the war in August and said it would take this into account when forming its policy.
Although membership of the alliance, opposed by 60% of Ukrainians, has been dropped from the country's official objectives, accession to the European Union remains Ukraine's top strategic priority.
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