Yaroslava Mahuchikh. Stock photo: Getty Images
Only a few hours are left until the closing ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympic Games, and the athletes are competing for the last sets of medals that will no longer affect Ukraine’s overall medal…
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Ukraine uses Olympics to capture world attention, fight war fatigue
PARIS — Ukraine’s Olympic house stands out for its somber atmosphere, with fewer celebrations and parties than the other fan clubhouses that countries set up to tout their athletes and culture. It has moments of silence for war victims and…
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Ukrainian gold medal-winning boxer returns home to lift spirits amid war
Ukraine’s gold medal-winning boxer Oleksandr Khyzhniak gave a military salute to the crowd gathered to celebrate his return to the war-torn country from the Paris Olympics.
Stepping out of the special Olympic Express train at Kyiv’s central…
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A Post-American Europe | Foreign Affairs
For decades, U.S. policy toward Europe stayed the same: Washington anchored itself to the continent via NATO and acted as the region’s main security provider while the European members of NATO accepted U.S. leadership. Today, however, much of…
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Overall medal count of 2024 Olympics: Ukraine in top 20
The overall medal count of the 2024 Olympic Games has been updated as of the conclusion of the fourteenth day of competition, 9 August.
Source: Champion, a sports news platform within Ukrainska Pravda’s holding company
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What Ukraine’s assault on Russia could mean for EU gas supplies | Energy
A Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk region – the largest since the war began with about 1,000 soldiers and more than two dozen tanks and other armoured vehicles storming over the border this week – poses a threat to a major gas supply…
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Paris Olympics: These twins are on an Olympic ‘mission’ to serve Ukraine
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Ukrainian twins Maryna and Vladyslava Aleksiiva will join more than 10,000 athletes at this year’s Olympics in Paris, but the artistic swimmers’ preparation for…
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A Ukrainian breaker’s journey to the Paris Olympics
By the time Russian forces invaded her homeland in 2022, Kateryna Pavlenko was far away in Los Angeles, coming up in the world of the newest Olympic sport of breaking.
She had moved from Kharkiv, Ukraine, a year earlier, partly to pursue her hobby…
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The Current State of Ukrainian Mobilisation and Ways to Boost Recruitment
Recently, both in the Western and Ukrainian media, there has been a discussion about the problems associated with the recruitment of new military personnel into the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This coverage presents the current situation in a…
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State of emergency declared in Kursk as Ukrainians and Russians clash
A screen grab from a video released by Russian Ministry of Defense shows Russian forces launching a missile attack, targeting the military equipment of Ukrainian Armed Forces at the border area near Kursk Oblast, Russia on August 08, 2024.
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