IOC = The International Olympic Committee announced on the 25th that Russian and Belarusian athletes are not acting in a way that is contrary to peace, such as taking a neutral position that does not represent their country and actively supporting a military invasion of Ukraine. He announced that he would consider returning to the international competition on the condition of such things.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video released on Wednesday: "It is disappointing. There can be no neutrality in a war like this. The flag of neutrality carried by Russian athletes will be covered in blood." It is clear that Russia should be excluded from the sports world, even if it is not a representative of Russia but a neutral position.
"Russia should stop aggression and terrorism, after which we can talk about Russia's participation," he said, adding that hundreds of Ukrainian athletes had lost their lives in the Russian attack. I want to call Bakhmut so that I can see that there is no such thing as neutrality," he criticized the IOC's policy.
On the 28th, President Zelensky continued to criticize, posting on SNS that ``the principles of the Olympics and war are fundamentally opposites.''
Foreign Minister Kureba also posted on Twitter on the 26th, "While Ukrainian athletes are being killed by Russia because of their passports, the IOC insists that 'they should not be prevented from participating because of their passports.'" ignoring Russia's war crimes," he said.