Category: 8. Sports

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The players were chosen from among the thousands of Ukrainians wounded in the war. With limbs lost to Russian attacks, they gathered at a stadium in Kyiv over the weekend, ready to…

The Ukrainian U-20 national ice hockey team played the second match of the 2025 World Cup in Division IV on Sunday, 12 January.

Source: Champion, a sports news platform within…

For the third year in a row, Ukrainian football competitions are taking place amid the full-scale war. Despite a myriad of severe challenges, women’s football in Ukraine is gaining popularity and bringing some sense of normality amid the…

Faced with a severe shortage of soldiers for the war in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin’s Russia started recruiting convicted criminals from prisons. A person can be immediately pardoned by the president just for agreeing to fight – and it does not…

Alexey Bugaev, a former Russian professional soccer player, has died at the age of 43 while fighting with the Russian army in their invasion of Ukraine.

Bugaev played for five clubs in the Russian league during his soccer career, including Torpedo…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr…

It was only six months into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine when, on a balmy September evening in eastern Germany, I came across Mykhailo Mudryk shortly after midnight.

This was September 2022 and Mudryk was by then an emerging talent for the…

Fifa says it “sincerely regrets” that a map shown during the 2026 World Cup qualifying draw appeared to exclude Crimea as part of Ukraine.

The graphic – showing countries that cannot be drawn to play each other for geopolitical reasons -…

The London-based club confirms the 23-year-old tests positive for a banned substance.

Chelsea player Mykhailo Mudryk has failed a doping test, the Premier League club says, as reports state the Ukraine international has been provisionally…