Ukrainian athlete Oksana Zubkovska won a gold medal in the T12 long jump event on Sept. 1, giving Ukraine its second gold medal at the 2024 Paris Paralympics on the fourth day of the games.
Zubkovska reached a distance of 5.78…
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In death, his friend saved his life on a Ukrainian battlefield. Now he’s honoring him with sport.
As bitter fighting raged around the eastern city of Bakhmut on Jan. 25, 2023, Dziubynskyi, said their unit, the 95th Air Assault Brigade, were surrounded by Russian forces who bombarded them with tank and mortar fire.
He said they dived into…
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Russian air strikes injure dozens in Kharkiv
Watch: Russian missile strikes Kharkiv near metro and supermarket Russian air strikes have injured at least 41 people in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, officials have said.
Regional head Oleh Syniehubov said five children were among those wounded…
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Paralympics 2024: Ukraine’s preparations amid war
Other athletes have found their own ways to contribute to the war effort. Wheelchair fencer Andrii Demchuk crossed the border to Poland with his wife and two children after the invasion.
After settling his family in Warsaw, he began helping other…
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Another Poland-Ukraine Border Checkpoint Closed Due to Repairs
Due to ongoing repair work, travel between Poland and Ukraine will encounter delays at major border checkpoints until mid-November.
In August 2024, Poland closed the Dorohusk checkpoint, located near Ukrainian Yahotyn, for essential repairs. This…
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Pull back from the border or risk ‘tragic mistakes’ – POLITICO
Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko said earlier this month that he had deployed nearly one-third of his country’s armed forces to the border with Ukraine, telling state-run TV the move came in response to Kyiv amassing troops near its…
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How Can Soil Solarization Protect Plants? » ScienceABC
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Soil solarization helps kill pathogens that infect plants—such as worms, fungi, and bacteria—using heat. Farmers who use this method insulate the soil with a layer of plastic wrap during the hottest time of the year to heat the soil….
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Physicists ease path to entanglement for quantum sensing — Harvard Gazette
Nothing in science can be achieved or understood without measurement. Today, thanks to advances in quantum sensing, scientists can measure things that were once impossible to even imagine: vibrations of atoms, properties of individual photons, fluctuations associated with gravitational…
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At Camp Ramah in Ukraine, sports and Jewish traditions are an escape from war – The Forward
Ariel Oberfeld, 17, traveled from his home in suburban Chicago to work as a counselor at Ramah Yachad in Ukraine in 2024. (Courtesy Midreshet Schechter)
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At Camp Ramah in Ukraine, sports and Jewish traditions are an escape from war
(JTA) — Ariel Oberfeld spent his childhood summers at a Jewish overnight camp in Wisconsin. This summer, the 17-year-old traveled further afield, to teach sports at Ramah Yachad, a Jewish camp in Ukraine holding its…
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