An inspection team from the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) will visit Ukraine for the first time in late February to check the country's preparations for the European Basketball Championship in 2015.

"On February 25-26, for the first time since Ukraine gained the right to host EuroBasket 2015, a team of FIBA Europe experts will make an inspection visit to Kyiv," President of the Basketball Federation of Ukraine Oleksandr Volkov said on Friday at a meeting of the coordinating committee on preparations for the championship.