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[Eva Raud 🇪🇪 @ImEvaRaud]

“Alabuga,” an entity under sanctions imposed by the US, EU, and UK due to its direct involvement in the production of military drones, is hosting and sponsoring an esports tournament on @Twitch, while the platform ignores violations and responds that no rules were broken

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Already working overtime for his masters in the Kremlin by harassing pro-Ukraine activists.

[Peter Heine Nielsen @PHChess]

The unsuccessful struggle to get Karjakin banned from chess has lasted more than 2 years.

Ukrainian Skeleton athlete Heraskevych tweeted this 2 years ago:

[Peter Heine Nielsen @PHChess]

The "Donetsk People Republic" team, playing in an international youth team tournament in Russia 🇷🇺 right now.

@FIDE_chess its illegal by the FIDE and IOC charter.

[LTV Ziņu dienests @ltvzinas]

"Man rokās ir ķivere. Domāju, visiem ir skaidrs, ko šajā brīdī tas nozīmē. Gribu, lai visa Latvijas tauta un pasaule zina, ka mēs šajā grūtajā laikā esam ar Ukrainu. Bijām, esam un būsim. Mēs esam ar Ukrainu. Slava Ukrainai!" sarunā ar Latvijas Televīziju teica Aparjods. #LSM #ZiemasOS2026

[Vladyslav Heraskevych OLY @heraskevych]

I want to thank everyone for all the support we’re receiving. There really is an incredible amount of it.

For me, the sacrifice of the people depicted on the helmet means more than any medal ever could - because they gave the most precious thing they had.
And simple respect toward them is exactly what I want to give.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

I stand with Heraskevych! Sacrifice upon sacrifice, and still Ukrainians will not bow or break.

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

While Ukrainian athlete who honor his fallen teammates face ban, Russian lugers Pavel Repilov and Daria Olesik were allowed to compete under a “neutral” flag after openly promoting a company that co-produces the very drones killing Ukrainians.

The company, Energon LLC, is under strict international sanctions. Yet these athletes compete freely.

@iocmedia hypocrites.

[Vladyslav Heraskevych OLY @heraskevych]

4 years ago at the 2022 Olympic Games.

Unfortunately, over these years this call for peace has only become even more relevant.
Also over these 4 years, the IOC has changed dramatically. Back then, in that action, they saw a call for peace and did not apply any sanctions against me.
Now, at the Olympics, we have already seen a large number of Russian flags in the stands, on the helmet of one of the athletes - and for the IOC, this is not a violation.
Yet a violation was found in the “helmet of memory”, which pays tribute to members of the Ukrainian sports family who have been killed since the last Olympic Games were held.
The truth is on our side.

I hope for a fair final decision from the IOC.

[Edgars Rinkēvičs @edgarsrinkevics]

#StandWithUkraine #MilanoCortinaOlympic2026 🇺🇦 🇺🇦🇺🇦

[Olga Klymenko @OlgaK2013]

Are they missing in action? Killed by a bomb? Burned in their houses? Killed in action? If not, they are fine, unlike all Ukrainian athletes killed by russia.

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Ukraine skeleton racer pays tribute to war victims https://t.co/jTD28wMvRM

[MFA of Ukraine 🇺🇦 @MFA_Ukraine]

Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych wore a special helmet during his first training sessions on the Olympic track.

It features portraits of Ukrainian athletes killed during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine – in total, it’s over 650 Ukrainian athletes and coaches.

Russia must be kept out of international sports as long as it continues the brutal aggression.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Vladyslav Heraskevych at the 2026 Olympics wearing a helmet with photographs of Ukrainian athletes who had been killed by the russian war.

“Some of them were my friends,” he said. 💔

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

🔴 Skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych makes stand as IOC comes under pressure to increase rather than soften sporting sanctions on aggressor

Read the full story below 🖇️
https://t.co/sXHOD5V2e7

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Don’t look away. The richest nations, the strongest military alliance in the history of the world are right next door and choose every day not to stop this. All while Ukrainian soldiers defend their cozy complacency.

[MonOkson | Eugene 🇺🇦 @MonOkson]

4 days no power,0% on generator and even all power banks and other things is full discharge,I have last 3% on my phone,I played yesterday in my home with 3 degrees 🥶 and if you want to blame anyone w/our lose-blame me,we lose totally because of me
I guess it’s time to go…😿💀🥺

[Oleksandr Petryk @petr1k_tv]

Today in Kyiv I enjoyed 1,5 hours of electricity: from 2am to 3:30am

No heating in the house, -15 C outside

Ukraine was one of the biggest esports centers in Europe before 2022 but now it's almost impossible for players to practice and compete here

russia is a terrorist state

[BBC Sport @BBCSport]

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.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

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.