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Olga Sopit won the first gold medal in the history of Ukraine at the European Fencing Championship in women's foil.

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In the final, the 23-year-old from Kyiv defeated the Olympic champion, 10-time world champion and 15-time European champion Italian Arianna Errigo (15:8).  For Sopit, this is the first medal at major international tournaments.  ▪️This is Ukraine's second award at this year's championship after Alina Komashchuk's bronze medal.

Mykhailo Kokhan won the international bronze series tournament of the World Continental Tour in Athletics in Estonia.

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The Ukrainian was losing to the Hungarian Armin Zabados until the last attempt, who was leading the competition with a result of 79.10 m. However, Kokhan managed to snatch victory by throwing the hammer at 79.22 m. It was this result that brought the Ukrainian the gold medal of the tournament. And a few days ago, Kokhan set a personal record of 82.38 m at the gold series competitions in the USA.

Fencing player Alina Komashchuk climbs the personal podium of the European Championship for the second year in a row and opens the record of Ukraine's awards in Anton!

After an incredible victory with a revenge (for the defeat in the final of the European Championship-2025) over the hostess of the track Sara Nutcha🇫🇷 (15:11), the 33-year-old representative of Odessa still lost in the semifinals to the medalist of the World Cups and Grand Prix Lucia Martin-Portugues🇪🇸 (15:7).  💥We note that the bronze in Anton-2026 for our Olympic champion is the seventh European Championship medal in her career, and the second personal after the silver in Genoa-2025!  💙💛Congratulations to Alina, her family, personal mentors Oleksandr Vasyutin and Artem Skorokhod, the team's senior coach Yevheniy Statsenko and the entire Ukrainian national team
On 22 April 2026, the Arbitral Tribunal established under Annex VII of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) rendered its award on the merits in the case of Ukraine against the Russian Federation concerning the rights of a coastal state in the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov and the Kerch Strait. The case was initiated by Ukraine on 14 September 2016 in connection with the Russian Federation’s violation of its obligations under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea in the waters adjacent to the coast of Crimea of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov and the Kerch Strait since 2014. In its final award, the Arbitral Tribunal did not establish that the Sea of Azov and the Kerch Strait are the so-called “Russian lake”, but instead confirmed their status as internal waters of two States – Ukraine and the Russian Federation.  Ukraine remains a coastal state in the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov and the Kerch Strait and retains all sovereign rights granted to it by inter...

Lyudmila Luzan and Anastasia Rybachok are European champions in the 500-meter distance!

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Ukrainian canoeists confidently won the final heat, ahead of their closest rivals by more than 1.5 seconds. This is the duo's second gold at Euro 2026 after winning the 200-meter distance.

Usyk

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The most important thing is that Russia began from Ukraine: Ukrainian princes, tsars, and their children built Moscow.” — Oleksandr Usyk

Lyudmila Luzan is the European champion in canoeing at a distance of 200 meters!

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Luzan beat her closest rival, Italian Olympia Della Giustini, by 1.729 seconds - a huge advantage for such a short distance. Congratulations to Lyudmila on another gold! Beauty!