Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych wore a helmet with images of people killed in the war in his home country during a Winter Olympics training session in Cortina.
Heraskevych had promised before the Games to use the event as a platform to keep attention on the conflict.
"Some of them were my friends," said Heraskevych, who was Ukraine's flagbearer in the opening ceremony.
He told Reuters that many of those pictured on his helmet were athletes including teenage weightlifter Alina Peregudova, boxer Pavlo Ishchenko and ice hockey player Oleksiy Loginov.
The 26-year-old said the International Olympic Committee (IOC) had contacted Ukraine's Olympic Committee over the helmet.
His helmet bears portraits of our athletes who were killed by Russia. Figure skater Dmytro Sharpar, who was killed in combat near Bakhmut; Yevhen Malyshev, a 19-year-old biathlete killed by the occupiers near Kharkiv; and other Ukrainian athletes whose lives were taken by Russia’s war.
I thank the flag bearer of our national team at the Winter Olympics, Vladyslav Heraskevych, for reminding the world of the price of our struggle.
This truth cannot be inconvenient, inappropriate, or called a “political demonstration at a sporting event.” It is a reminder to the entire world of what modern Russia is.
And this is what reminds everyone of the global role of sport and the historic mission of the Olympic movement itself – it is all about peace and for the sake of life. Ukraine remains faithful to this. Russia proves the opposite.
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Deputy from Putin’s party Andrey Lugovoy is calling for acts of aggression against the United States:
— We need to work much more closely with all the contradictions they have.
— For example?
— We need to embed people there.
— Where?
— Into their internal life. We need to work with journalists, with politicians, we need to buy them.
— Embed people in the Democratic Party?
— Yes, I am firmly convinced of that. When we talk about the aggressive soft power they use..
— If there is a party that is most hostile to Russia, it is the Democratic Party. The Republicans are about as hostile to Russia. It's going to be very hard to find supporters of our country here.
— I'm not talking about supporters. I think we should push them deeper into conflict. We should exploit their internal contradictions to push them into a shutdown — not just economically, but politically too. And we shouldn't be shy about that. They often accuse us of interfering in their elections.
We say we don't interfere, we really don't interfere, but we should interfere. We should... We are developing our propaganda activities in the positive sense of the word. I'm talking about there, in Europe and America, we need to make it even stronger.
And we see results. I gave you some examples. We're doing it absolutely correctly. Same goes for Europe. Still, contradictions exist, and we should use them.
We need to watch carefully for the provocations they carry out. They want provocations? Let's give them something interesting. So later they won't publicly call it a provocation, but will internally understand that it was actually a strong signal.
Because the red lines we've drawn, those red lines, they've long since been crossed, and we haven't really answered any of those crossings in a striking way. Maybe that just shows we're decent, well-mannered people.
Crush them all there, once and for all.
В Одесі військові та ветерани провели акцію з вимогою створити військово-цивільну адміністрацію та відсторонити міського голову Труханова.
Мера звинувачують у відмові фінансувати підрозділи тероборони, затягуванні процесу декомунізації та створенні корупційних схем.
Ukraina i Polska muszą raz na zawsze zapomnieć o historycznych konfliktach i urazach, ponieważ w tej chwili istnieje globalne zagrożenie ze strony Rosji dla całej Europy.
Drodzy Polacy, jesteśmy wam wdzięczni za pomoc w 2022 roku, ale pamiętamy też o zamkniętych granicach. Czy jednak to wszystko ma znaczenie, jeśli teraz Rosji trzeba raz na zawsze dać po zębach?
Musimy dziś stać ramię w ramię – dla wspólnego bezpieczeństwa i pokoju.
This is how the headquarters of Ukraine’s government now looks after this morning's Russian attack. Our whole team works in this building daily. Fortunately, no one was injured. Russian barbarism will not halt the work of Ukraine’s government.
The walls will be repaired, they are only bricks, but the lives of our people can’t be restored. In this night’s Russian attack 4 people killed and 44 injured.
What is clear is that Russia does not want peace.
I urge the world to turn outrage over Russian crimes into concrete support for Ukraine. Not for the walls of this building, but to protect our people and communities across the country.
We need stronger air defense – more systems and more ammunition – to shield our cities and our energy system as winter approaches. We need tougher sanctions that will deprive the aggressor of oil and gas revenues, the very resources funding its terror.
Only by standing strong and united can we bring an end to Russian aggression and secure peace.
This night, russian troops again attacked apartment buildings in Kyiv. There are casualties among the civilian population.
Mr. @POTUS, is this putin's desire for peace? How much longer will this terrorist be tolerated?
Russians suddenly launched missile attacks on sleeping people in Kyiv in the middle of the night. A residential building was destroyed, there are wounded and dead, including a child.
Putin is a maniac who kills civilians in response to all requests for peace. And makes Trump look like an idiot
Putin plans to bring fake maps to show President Trump, claiming Ukraine is an “artificial state” formed from others’ lands — to justify Russia’s war and occupation. For reference: most modern states were once parts of others. Russia itself was in the Golden Horde.