{"id":1359037,"date":"2026-02-17T18:24:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T16:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/a-russian-citizen-carried-the-ukrainian-flag-at-the-opening-of-the-olympics\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T18:24:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T16:24:26","slug":"a-russian-citizen-carried-the-ukrainian-flag-at-the-opening-of-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/a-russian-citizen-carried-the-ukrainian-flag-at-the-opening-of-the-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"A Russian citizen carried the Ukrainian flag at the opening of the Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"644\" data-end=\"818\"><strong>The plaque of the Ukrainian national team was carried by Russian citizen Anastasia Kucherova during the opening ceremony of the 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Milan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"644\" data-end=\"818\"> This is reported by Suspilne.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"558\" data-end=\"771\"> Kucherova lives in Milan and claims that she has not visited Russia since 2018. According to her, the distribution of countries among volunteers was random, but when the choreographer asked about her preferences, she chose Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"773\" data-end=\"1026\"> &#8220;When you walk next to these people, you understand that they have every right to feel hatred for any Russian. However, I think it&#8217;s important to do even a small act to show them that maybe not all people think the same way,&#8221; Kucherova said.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1028\" data-end=\"1125\"> She explained that in this way she wanted to demonstrate her disagreement with Vladimir Putin&#8217;s policies.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plaque of the Ukrainian national team was carried by Russian citizen Anastasia Kucherova during the opening ceremony of the 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Milan. This is reported by Suspilne. Kucherova lives in Milan and claims that she has not visited Russia since 2018. According to her, the distribution of countries among volunteers was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1359014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873,76895],"class_list":["post-1359037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1359037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1359014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}