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The International Olympic Committee estimated on Wednesday March 20 that the Russian government had fallen “even lower” by accusing the organization of “switch into racism and neo-Nazism” by the restrictions imposed on Russian athletes for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. “This goes beyond anything that is acceptable.”criticized Mark Adams, the spokesperson for the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the German Thomas Bach, in front of the press.
At least three dead in a Russian strike on the city of Kharkiv. At least three people were killed and five others injured in a Russian strike in broad daylight on Wednesday against Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second city located in the northeast of the country, a regional police official said.“Three dead, five injured and a large fire: the Russians hit Kharkiv again”, wrote Serguiï Bolvinov, head of the police investigation department in this region, on Facebook.
Civilian killed in Russian Belgorod region, local authorities say. A strike killed a civilian and injured two on Wednesday in the Russian region of Belgorod, bordering Ukraine and regularly targeted in recent weeks, the local governor announced. The attack killed a man who was in his car and injured two other people, including “a 17 year old girl”, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Telegram.
Two civilians killed by Russian strike near Kherson. Strikes are almost daily in this region of southern Ukraine, reported the regional governor. The Russian army has “attacked several civilian cars”killing “two men”, specifies Oleksandre Prokoudin on Telegram. In the Dnipropetrovsk region, nighttime strikes also left six injured, including two teenagers aged 13 and 15, said the local governor, Serguiï Lyssak.