Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian athletes should be barred from competing in the 2024 Olympics.
during a visit to Seoul on Monday. In a speech, he noted that other countries had changed their stance on not providing weapons to countries in conflict since Russia’s invasion, and there is an “urgent need” for ammunition, ReutersEstonia’s prime minister, Kaja Kallas, has also criticized the IOC for allowing Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete
in events in the lead-up to the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics. She described the IOC decision as “politically and morally wrong,” on Twitter that sports are “a tool in Russia’s propaganda machine” and that “ignoring that means siding with aggression.”As Ukraine awaits new tanks from the United States and Europe and fighting rages over strategic towns in the east, a war of attrition is underway along the Dnieper River, write Siobhán O’Grady and Anastacia Galouchka.
Washington Post journalists spent several days traveling along the Ukrainian-controlled main and back roads that connect the towns and villages along the river to see how civilians are surviving winter, frequently without gas or electricity. Often only the elderly are left, surviving on food handouts, without heat. Residents fear they could be killed at any moment, and still whisper of collaborators living among them.
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