Ukraine sports minister hits out ‘irresponsible’ people who want Russia to return to Olympics - Matvii Bidnyi, Ukraine's minister of youth and sports, said that any change would appear to condone Russ

Ukraine’s women’s badminton team had never qualified for an Uber Cup until one semifinal run in Istanbul changed their entire program. The squad reached the final four at the 2026 European Women’s Team Championships on February 12 and grabbed their first-ever world championship berth.

Ukraine's Sports Minister Matvii Bidnyi believes the decision to disqualify Vladyslav Heraskevych from his skeleton event at the Milano Cortina Games was unjust but told Reuters there was no question of his team pulling out of the Olympics.

Ukrainian figure skater Kyrylo Marsak was exhausted last summer as he trained for the upcoming Milan Cortina Winter Games

Heraskevych will no longer compete in Milan after the IOC announced his disqualification.

The Ukrainian flag bearer’s disqualification from skeleton over a helmet featuring athletes killed in the war with Russia is yet another example of how politics and the Olympics cannot be separated.

Ukraine's sports minister decried a potential softening of restrictions against Russian athletes where they might ultimately be able to compete in the future under their national flag rather than as “Individual Neutral Athletes.

Ukraine's Vladyslav Heraskevych was disqualified from the Olympic skeleton competition on Thursday over his "helmet of remembrance" depicting athletes killed since Russia's invasion despite a last-minute appeal from a tearful IOC president.