Jim Shevchuk 🇺🇦🌻

A typical school day in Kyiv now includes hours underground. Russia launches drone strikes during daylight. Hundreds of thousands of children are trying to study through this every single day. They deserve to be seen.

🤬 The wreckage of a Russian drone fell near the Independence Monument on Maidan Nezalezhnosti in Kyiv. Russia continues to attack the Ukrainian capital with drones.

I am the Ukrainian skeleton racer who was wrongfully disqualified from the Olympics last month because of my “Memory Helmet.” Tonight in Milano-Cortina, the Paralympic Games are opening. The Committee has bizarrely permitted Russian soldier-athletes to participate under the Russian flag. The head of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) literally stated that they don’t care about what Russian soldiers did in Ukraine. The problem is that we do care. They are killing Ukrainians on the battlefield, bombing our cities, and committing genocide. Now, with this step of allowing them to compete, the IPC is giving them the opportunity to continue committing genocide by spreading Russian narratives with Russian flags and symbols. They try to manipulate the situation by pointing out that the movement started after World War II, but during World War II the Olympic Games were cancelled, and German athletes were not invited and did not take part in the Games until 1952. It looks like the head of the IPC doesn’t know the history of the Olympic and Paralympic movement at all. What a shame. This whole story is just getting worse and worse.

Infantino, president of FIFA and member of the IOC (International Olympic Committee). The same IOC that requires athletes to refrain from political expressions during competitions and that disqualified Ukrainian athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych for commemorating his fallen teammates

Russian soldiers at the Paralympics. Flags. Anthems. 🇺🇦 Ukraine 🇵🇱 Poland 🇪🇪 Estonia 🇨🇿 Czech Republic Refuse to stand beside them. RT if you agree.

Allowing the flags of aggressor states to be raised at the Paralympic Games while Russia’s war against Ukraine rages on is wrong — morally and politically. The decision to admit Russia and Belarus under national symbols ignores a simple truth: these flags and anthems represent regimes that wage aggression, destroy cities, and weaponize sport for propaganda. They cannot be separated from the crimes committed under them. In today’s Russia, even Paralympic sport has been used to glorify participants in the war against Ukraine. Granting such a system a prestigious international platform sends a dangerous signal that accountability can be sidelined. Sport must stand for fairness, dignity, and respect. It cannot become a stage for regimes that trample those very values. I have instructed Ukraine’s ambassadors to engage with officials in their host countries and urge them not to attend the Opening Ceremony if this disgraceful decision is not reversed. Ukraine will continue to defend justice and dignity, as well as to protect the integrity of international sport from being exploited by aggressor states.