Ukraine won 19 medals – and will boycott the closing ceremony, refusing to stand alongside Russia’s Paralympic team
The boycott bookends the entire Games: absent from the opening, absent from the closing, present on the podium.
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Boycott goes global: Ukraine urges world to shun Paralympic parade, as Russia allowed to ceremony despite 190K war crimes
Lithuania, Poland, Canada, UK and others signal protest stance as Paralympic controversy escalates.