Russia have named Roman Neustadter in Euro 2016 squad

Russia have named Roman Neustadter, who was born in Ukraine and does not yet have Russian citizenship, in their Euro 2016 squad.

The Russian Football Union (RFU) announced the squad on Saturday, with head coach Leonid Slutskiy including the 28-year-old Schalke defender, who has been living in Germany since he was a child and has played for Germany's youth teams.

Neustadter is expected to get a Russian passport in the next few days, which will allow him to play for the national team.

Russia will be without midfielder Alan Dzagoev after he suffered a broken metatarsal while playing for CSKA Moscow. 

Dzagoev was named in the initial squad but was forced to withdraw from it on Monday after suffering a broken metatarsal in Saturday's game against Rubin Kazan. Krasnodar's Dmitri Torbinski was called up to replace him. 

CSKA Moscow's 19-year-old attacking midfielder Alexander Golovin, who only recently broke into their starting line-up, has also been included in the 23-man Russia squad.

Slutskiy, who is coach of CSKA as well as the national team, has, omitted two of Russia's most experienced players.

Former Chelsea wing-back Yuri Zhirkov, who now plays for Zenit St Petersburg, and Russia's all-time leading scorer Alexander Kerzhakov will not be going to France next month.

Zhirkov, 32, will miss the tournament due to an inflamed Achilles tendon.

Kerzhakov, 33, who has scored 30 goals for Russia, missed the first half of the season after falling out with Zenit head coach Andre Villas-Boas and went on loan to FC Zurich, who are bottom of the Swiss Super League.

Russia are in Group B with England, Slovakia and Wales and open their campaign against Roy Hodgson's side in Marseille on Saturday June 11.

Russia squad for Euro 2016:

Goalkeepers: Igor Akinfeev (CSKA Moscow), Guilherme (Lokomotiv Moscow), Yuri Lodygin (Zenit St Petersburg).

Defenders: Alexei Berezutski (CSKA Moscow), Vasili Berezutski (CSKA Moscow), Sergei Ignashevich (CSKA Moscow), Dmitri Kombarov (Spartak Moscow), Roman Neustadter (Schalke 04), Georgi Schennikov (CSKA Moscow), Roman Shishkin (Lokomotiv Moscow), Igor Smolnikov (Zenit)

Midfielders: Igor Denisov (Dynamo Moscow), Denis Glushakov (Spartak Moscow), Alexander Golovin (CSKA Moscow), Oleg Ivanov (Terek Grozny), Pavel Mamaev (Krasnodar), Alexander Samedov (Lokomotiv Moscow), Oleg Shatov (Zenit St Petersburg), Roman Shirokov (CSKA Moscow), Dmitri Torbinski (Krasnodar). 

Forwards: Artem Dzyuba (Zenit St Petersburg), Alexander Kokorin (Zenit St Petersburg), Fedor Smolov (Krasnodar)