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Israel's Maccabi Tel Aviv played Ukraine's Zorya Luhansk in Lublin, Poland

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Maccabi Tel Aviv and Luhansk united by football in time of conflict

sraeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv beat Zorya Luhansk of Ukraine 3-1 in Thursday's Europa Conference League tie in Lublin, Poland.

AFPNovember 9, 2023

From top left to bottom right: Shakhtar Donetsk's CEO Sergey Palkin, Shakhtar's Ukrainian international defender Ivan Petryak, Petryak in action in a game and Palkin on the pitch

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Ukrainian club Shakhtar reaches out to wounded soldiers and war orphans

Shakhtar Donetsk’s objectives used to be confined to silverware but now the storied Ukrainian football club have loftier aims, financing hospital care abroad for...

AFPApril 17, 2023

Brazilian football legend Pele, seen here in April 2019, said in a public letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin that 'the power to stop this conflict is in your hands. The same ones I shook in Moscow, at our last meeting in 2017'

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Football legend Pele tells Putin: ‘stop the invasion’

Brazilian football legend Pele called Wednesday for Russian President Vladimir Putin to end his army's invasion of Ukraine.

AFPJune 6, 2022

The Ukraine team raise their fists at the Beijing Paralympics

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Ukraine Paralympic athletes to help war-torn homeland

There will be no welcome parade when Ukraine's most successful Winter Paralympics team returns to its war-torn homeland from Beijing.

AFPMarch 14, 2022

Ukraine's Marta Kostyuk on the way to a first-round victory over Ukraine-born Belgian Maryna Zanevska in the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells

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Ukraine’s Kostyuk slams tennis response to Russian invasion

Ukraine's Marta Kostyuk lashed out at the tennis world's response to the Russian invasion of her homeland.

AFPMarch 11, 2022

Solidarity: Benfica's Ukrainian forward Roman Yaremchuk

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Benfica’s Yaremchuk shows shirt of support for Ukraine in Champions League

Benfica's Ukrainian striker Roman Yaremchuk celebrated a Champions League goal by revealing a shirt bearing his country's coat of arms.

AFPFebruary 23, 2022

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Ukraine squad told to avoid Russian media

Ukraine’s sports minister on Friday banned his Olympic team from talking to the Russian media while in Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Games....

AFPAugust 5, 2016

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Ukraine skier, coach quit Olympics in anti-regime protest

A Ukrainian alpine skier and her coach have pulled out of the Sochi Games in protest at the authorities’ deadly use of force against...

AFPFebruary 20, 2014

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Maccabi Tel Aviv and Luhansk united by football in time of conflict

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Ukrainian club Shakhtar reaches out to wounded soldiers and war orphans

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Football legend Pele tells Putin: ‘stop the invasion’

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Ukraine Paralympic athletes to help war-torn homeland

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Ukraine’s Kostyuk slams tennis response to Russian invasion

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Benfica’s Yaremchuk shows shirt of support for Ukraine in Champions League

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Ukraine squad told to avoid Russian media

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Ukraine skier, coach quit Olympics in anti-regime protest