Saturday's IOC statement also listed taekwondo, but that section included no names.

"It is absolutely true — none of our taekwondists will perform at the Olympic Games in Paris," Vadim Ivanov, Russia's taekwondo head coach told the state-run RIA Novosti news agency.

Ukraine's Sports Minister Matvii Bidnyi welcomed the absence of "outspoken

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Ukrainian shelling on the Russian border town of Shebekino eliminated five people and wounded a number of, Belgorod area Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Saturday.Since Russia launched its war on Ukraine in 2022, the Belgorod area has faced waves of attacks, which Kyiv says are retaliation for Moscow's large-scale assault. Four bodies were
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A Russian Su-24 bomber violated Swedish airspace near the strategic Baltic Sea island of Gotland, leaving only after Sweden scrambled two JAS-39 fighter jets, Sweden's military said on Saturday.

The incident on Friday occurred three months after the Scandinavian country became a full member of NATO, dropping two centuries of military non-alliance.

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The pace of inflation in Russia accelerated yet again in May as officials warn huge public spending to support the military offensive on Ukraine is overheating the economy.

Increases in government expenditure have supported Russia's economy in the face of a barrage of Western sanctions but also triggered surging prices and labor shortages in many

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Ukraine stated on Friday that Russian forces were focusing their firepower on the Pokrovsk front in the eastern Donetsk area, where over night strikes injured a minimum of 6 civilians.The Kremlin annexed the commercial territory in late 2022, months after attacking, and its forces are making incremental gains there. The opponent is intensively
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said on television Friday that almost 700,000 Russians are fighting in Ukraine.

"In the zone of our special military operation there are almost 700,000," Putin said during a televised meeting with decorated participants from the offensive.

In December at his end-of-year press conference, Putin gave the figure of

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