28 March, 2024
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 Ukrainian Medical Aid Committee, established in 2000, which provides support to people with disabilities and runs an orphanage for children with special needs. Over the past two years, the committee has launched numerous initiatives to assist Ukrainians affected by the war. They manage three housing centers for displaced individuals who have fled Russian bombings, including a shelter for single mothers wit...
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17 March, 2024
🚨 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: one video echoing Kremlin propaganda to justify the war (“American hypnosis” of Ukrainians, Ukraine as “NATO’s armed pawn” that must be “struck preemptively”…), and another post glorifying Russia’s future victory and praising the bravery of its soldiers on the front lines.Let’s remember once again that the IOC’s own rules state that no Russian athlete linked to the military or supporting the war...
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12 March, 2024
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 Russian military, violating the IOC’s regulations for the participation of Russian athletes under a neutral banner.She has been awarded by Sergey Shoigu, Russia’s Defense Minister, for "services rendered to the Russian army," and by Alexey Teksler, governor of the Chelyabinsk region, who is sanctioned in multiple countries for his close ties to the Kremlin and his role in Russia’s military mobilizatio...
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