Ukraine’s Paralympic team will boycott the opening ceremony of the Milan-Cortina Games on March 6 in protest over Russian and Belarusian athletes being allowed to compete under their national flags. Kyiv’s National Paralympic Committee said it was “outraged by the cynical decision” of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) to grant participation slots to Russia and Belarus despite Moscow’s ongoing war against Ukraine. “The community of Ukrainian Paralympians and the National Paralympic