Ukraine’s National Olympic Committee (NOC) has appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) decision to provisionally reinstate Russia. The IOC suspended the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) in 2023 after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. However, on July 7, 2026, the IOC lifted the suspension, saying the reasons for the ban were “no…
A Russian missile attack on an east Ukrainian town killed four people and wounded 18, authorities said Monday. Merefa lies southwest of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second city that has faced heavy attacks by Russia in the more than four years of its invasion. The Kharkiv region governor, Oleg Synegubov, said the strike targeted the town of Merefa, adding: “The victims…
Russian strikes across Ukraine wounded more than a dozen people in at least four regions, at a time when US-led peace talks to end the war have ground to a halt, officials said Tuesday. In the northeastern city of Sumy, Russian drones wounded 15 people and damaged apartment buildings and a medical facility, the head of the region said….
