The International Olympic Committee on Thursday suspended the Russian Olympic Committee for recognising regional organisations from four territories annexed from Ukraine.

The IOC said the ROC would banned with immediate effect and would not be eligible for any funding after it recognised Olympic Councils from the regions of Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.

  • bloubz
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    Donetsk and Luhansk are independent regions though, they are not part of Ukraine

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      1 year ago

      Literally nobody claims they are “independent”. Russia annexed it and claims it’s Russian, the rest of the world recognizes it as regions of Ukraine.

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        1 year ago

        Well, they did friendo 🙃 (they = Donbass people)

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        And also you’re wrong on another point, Putin/Russia recognised their independence