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☆ A year before Paris Olympics, Ukraine torn over whether to compete
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Margaryta Chornokondratenko | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/6] Yaroslav Khartsyz, Ukrainian amateur boxer and Tokyo Olympics participant trains, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine July 25, 2023. The comment by Vadym Huttsait in an interview with Reuters suggests Kyiv could be open to reversing a controversial policy that would likely rule Ukrainian athletes out of competing at the Paris Olympics in 2024. Huttsait said they were discussing with Ukrainian sports federations if athletes could compete against Russian and Belarusian athletes taking part under a neutral flag. It is expected to allow Russian and Belarusians to compete under a neutral flag. The minister said he last talked to the IOC three weeks ago and tried to convince them that Russians and Belarusians cannot compete in the Olympics while Ukrainian cities are being bombed.

Persons: Yaroslav Khartsyz, Read, Vadym Huttsait, Huttsait, Margaryta Chornokondratenko, Max Hunder, Tom Balmforth, Christina Fincher Organizations: Tokyo, Paris Olympics, Reuters, Russian, IOC, Paris, Thomson Locations: Ukrainian, Ukraine, Kharkiv, Russia, KYIV, Kyiv, Belarus

☆ A year after Russia’s invasion: How Ukraine endured
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +21 min

REUTERS/Valentyn OgirenkoIn the early hours of Feb. 24, 2022, tens of thousands of Russian soldiers entered Ukraine. By seizing the city of three million people, and capturing or killing Zelenskiy, Russia’s hope appeared to be that Ukraine would quickly surrender. By March 23, Russia’s advance had captured regions of Ukraine along the Belarus border but Ukraine’s forces had begun reclaiming territory near Kyiv. Satellite imagery of Russia’s military convoy near Invankiv, Ukraine, Feb. 28, 2022. The two sit on a bed, with a radio and teddy bears nearby., image Ukrainian civilians have endured The will of the people of Ukraine continues to be that they remain free.

KYIV, Feb 19 (Reuters) - A hairdresser by day and a "drone hunter" by night, Oleksandr Shamshur, 41, is among tens of thousands of volunteers helping defend the skies over Ukraine against Russian attacks. [1/7] Hairdresser and Ukrainian Territorial Defence unit volunteer Oleksandr Shamshur, 41-year-old, prepares to guard sky over capital against Russian suicide drones in the beginning of his shift, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine February 2, 2023. "With the enemy at the doorstep, I had to do something, I had to act in defence," he said. During the night of Dec. 29-30, Shamshur said, his rooftop unit shot down two drones over Kyiv. Reporting by Margaryta Choronkondratenko and Yiming Woo; writing by Mark Heinrich; editing by John StonestreetOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

[1/3] Ukrainian territorial defence member Leonid Onyshchenko, 63-year-old, speaks to his family during a festive Christmas dinner, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Kostiantynivka, Ukraine, December 24, 2022. Holding her three-month-old son Yaroslav with one hand, Maryna took a Christmas cake out of oven with the other. Vitalii helped two other sons, Petro and Tais, get dressed before the festive Christmas dinner. In the past, Ukrainian Christians mostly celebrated Christmas in early January. As the family gathers around the table, Maryna calls her father to wish him merry Christmas.

☆ Wall Street surges, dollar plunges as inflation data boosts Fed slowdown hopes
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Stephen Culp | Margaryta Chornokondratenko | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

"This is welcome news," Cardillo added, suggesting that "there's a possibility the Fed raises interest rates by 50 basis points in December and then takes a pause." Signs that decades-high inflation growth is beginning to ebb sent U.S. Treasury yields lower, supporting expectations that the Fed could ease its foot from the rate-hike accelerator. The dollar lost ground against a basket of world currencies as sunny economic data lured investors away from the safe-haven greenback. The dollar index fell 1.96%, with the euro up 1.55% to $1.0166. Gold prices jumped as the dollar dropped, reflecting hopes that the inflation data could rein in the Fed's hawkish stance.

KYIV, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Ukraine will not be swayed by any nuclear threats from Moscow or annexation votes held on its territory and will press ahead with its plan to wrest back all its occupied land from Russia, a Ukrainian presidential adviser said on Tuesday. Mykhailo Podolyak told Reuters the world's nuclear powers should warn Russia that any use of strategic or tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine would be met with concrete action, and that Kyiv lacked the technology to respond symmetrically itself. Such warnings are seen as designed to deter Ukraine and the West by hinting that Moscow could be ready to use tactical nuclear weapons to defend newly annexed territory. "And we're supposed to accept this model or else a nuclear weapon will be used?...This is nonsense and it is unacceptable. He said it was imperative the world's nuclear powers made it clear to Russia that use of nuclear weapons would be punished with tangible measures - and not just elicit a U.N. Security Council resolution.

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