Russian wrestler Milad Alirzaev has been admitted to the Paris Olympics on Friday, April 6, during the qualifying tournament in Baku.Alirzaev openly supports Russia’s aggression in Ukraine.First, he participated in a propaganda tournament held in “memory of Russian hero Lieutenant General Kutuzov.” Roman Kutuzov was a Russian officer involved in the invasion of Ukraine, killed by ...
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March 2024. The Stand with Ukraine team met with Ukrainian athletes Valeriia Tereta (flatwater canoe/kayak) and Viktor Legkodukh (shot put) at Lviv City Hall to discuss the impact of the war on their lives and the unacceptable participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes in the Paris Olympic Games.Viktor Legkodukh, a young officer, suffered a spinal injury at the start of the war in...
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March 2024. The Stand with Ukraine team visited Unbroken, the rehabilitation center in Lviv that provides medical care and prosthetics to those injured and evacuated from the frontlines.Christina Klymko, project manager at Unbroken, gave us a tour of Ukraine’s largest hospital complex, the Clinical Municipal Communal Emergency Hospital, which has treated over 80,000 patients since the s...
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In March 2024, the Mayor of Paris’ 18th Arrondissement Traveled to Kyiv to Sign a Partnership with Podil District to Strengthen Their CooperationOn March 28, Eric Lejoindre, Mayor of the 18th arrondissement of Paris, signed a declaration of intent with the Podil District during his visit to Kyiv. This signing formalizes the relationship initiated in the spring of 2023, which notably allowed...
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At the end of March 2024, the Stand with Ukraine team visited Uzhhorod, a Ukrainian city near the Slovakian border in the Zakarpattia Oblast. With a population of 115,000 before Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022, Uzhhorod has become a hub of solidarity, welcoming several million displaced people in the early months of the war.We met with Nataliya and her team from the Ukrain...
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🚨 Seriously?Yet another “very neutral” Russian taekwondo athlete! This is becoming a pattern!When will the IOC finally take action to ban these brutes from the Paris Olympics? ❌Polina Khan, recently qualified for the 2024 Games, openly supports the war in Ukraine.Not only is she a member of the Russian military, but she also “liked” two Instagram posts supporting the invasion:...
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Tatiana Minina, a Russian taekwondo athlete who supports the war in Ukraine, has qualified for the 2024 Olympic Games.Following the qualification last Saturday of Maksim Khramtsov, another Putin supporter, Tatiana Minina's participation would further discredit the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which seems unable to enforce its own rules.Minina is a member of the Russi...
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SCANDAL AT THE OLYMPICS: Tony Estanguet, we need your help!Russian taekwondo athlete Maksim Khramtsov qualified yesterday for the Paris 2024 Olympics. However, he actively supports Putin and Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine. The Olympic Games are meant to celebrate peace—do we really want to invite individuals like him?Khramtsov is affiliated with the Russian military, having rece...
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Anastasiia Chyzhevska: A rising star of Ukrainian Women’s Judo, fighting against all oddsAt just 21 years old, Anastasiia Chyzhevska has already experienced the horrors of Russian aggression twice.In 2014, she was forced to flee her hometown of Luhansk after it was occupied by pro-Russian militias. She and her family relocated to Irpin, near Kyiv.But in F...
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Stand With Ukraine calls on lead candidates in European Elections to sign a charter of support for UkraineStand With Ukraine invites lead candidates for the upcoming European elections on June 9 to sign a charter of solidarity with Ukraine.Two years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, reinforcing European support has become crucial. The upcoming elections will play a decisive...
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