Voice of Ukraine

From Maia Mikhaluk in Kyiv (397th day of ruzzian invazion):

“If there’s an Olympics sport with killings and missile strikes, you know which national team would take the first place.”

A group of 35 countries, including the United States, Germany and Australia, demand that Russian and Belarusian athletes are banned from the 2024 Olympics.

More recently, 300 active and former fencers wrote to the IOC urging the organization to uphold sanctions against Russian and Belarusian athletes, saying that allowing them entry back into international competitions would be “a catastrophic error.”
“Russia’s aggression violates not only the norms of international law but also the fundamental values of Olympism, including peace, harmonious development of humankind and respect for human dignity and human rights,” the letter reads.
Yet International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has defended plans to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to participate in international competitions. Bach believes that banning athletes from ruzzia and belaruzzia will violate that rights.

How about rights of Ukrainian athletes – even just rights to be alive, forget training and competing!? More than 230 Ukrainian athletes, trainers and support staff have died since the start of the invasion. Another 15 have been wounded, 28 detained and four are missing, according to the Ukrainian government.