9 September, 2024
Ukraine leaves the Paralympic Games with an impressive total of 82 medals, finishing 5th in the overall medal ranking and 7th in gold medals:22 gold medals 🥇28 silver medals 🥈32 bronze medals 🥉🇺🇦 🎶 🇫🇷 The Ukrainian national anthem echoed 22 times across French stadiums, including Stade de France, La Défense Arena, and the Grand Palais!Highlights from the Paris Paralympic Games:65 Ukrainian athletes won medals, with 20 athletes climbing the podium multiple times 🎖️
26 world, European, or Paralympic records were broken 💯
Andrii Trusov became Ukraine’s most decorated athlete of the Games, winning 5 medals in para swimming 🥇🥇🥈🥈🥈
Swimming was a standout discipline for the Ukrainian delegation, earning a remarkable 40 medals in total! 🏊...
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7 September, 2024
In the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, thousands of people gathered on Friday to attend the funerals of victims killed in a Russian missile strike that claimed seven lives, including a mother and her three daughters.The attack, which struck the city’s historic center, also injured more than 30 civilians and deeply shocked Ukrainians as the country endures a new wave of Russian bombings. Lviv, typically spared from the most intense strikes targeting the eastern regions, has now felt the devastating reach of the war.Among the victims were Yevgenia Bazylevych, 43, and her daughters Emilia (7), Daryna (18), and Yaryna (21). The father, Yaroslav Bazylevych, the only survivor of his family, attended the funeral of his wife and three daughters.This tragedy has profoundly impacted t...
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4 September, 2024
The City of Paris and the Ukrainian Embassy in France have joined forces to present an extraordinary open-air exhibition: “TITANIUM.” This powerful project, created by French-Ukrainian photographer Youry Bilak, highlights the resilience of Ukrainians who have suffered life-altering injuries due to Russian aggression. Situated on the banks of the Seine, the free exhibition runs from August 20 to September 16, 2024, in the iconic setting of Pont Marie in Paris’s 4th arrondissement.“TITANIUM” tells the remarkable stories of Ukrainian athletes—men, women, and children—who have sustained severe injuries during Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine. Many of them rely on titanium prosthetics. Whether before or after the onset of the conflict, these athletes, armed with unwavering deter...
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