MILAN, Feb 17 : Russia and Belarus will have a combined 10 para athletes at next month's Milano Cortina Paralympics the International Paralympic Committee said in a statement on Tuesday. Both countries were banned from Paralympic competitions after Moscow's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, but regained full membership rights in the IPC after member organisations voted in September 2025 to lift their partial suspensions. Belarus is a key staging area for the invasion. International federations for each