He said this when commenting on the IOC President’s call to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to participate in international competitions.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba on the evening of Thursday, December 8, reacted in the words of International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach and French President Emmanuel Macron that “sport should not be politicized”.
Kuleba said the attempt to use sport to whitewash war crimes is despicable.
In a press conference, Bach said: “President Macron said that sport should not be politicized.”
According to him, Macron called the representatives of all the countries attending the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics in Paris, “including those at war,” including the Russian Federation and Belarus. Bach believed that the Olympic Movement “should be a unifying force, not a dividing one.”
Kuleba, in response, recalled that since February 2022, Russia has killed 184 Ukrainian athletes.
“And now Mr. Bach quoted Emmanuel Macron, who allegedly said that “sport should not be politicized”, and athletes from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus should be treated equally. .
Recall that at the end of August it was reported that during the invasion of the Russian Federation 113 sports facilities were destroyed in Ukraine.
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Source: korrespondent
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