Overview
- Ukraine’s banned parade kit featured a repeated map of the country within its 1991 borders designed by Viktor Anisimov, which the IPC deemed a political display under its uniform rules.
- NPC Ukraine president Valeriy Sushkevich said an alternative outfit was produced on an urgent timeline and transported by bus to Milan for the team already on site.
- The IPC cited regulations that forbid political messages, slogans or national-identity statements on Paralympic attire in explaining the rejection.
- Foreign minister Andrii Sybiha condemned the ruling and called on all delegations to join the opening-ceremony boycott after the IPC allowed Russian and Belarusian flags.
- Ukraine will skip the 6 March opening in Verona yet compete from 6–15 March with 25 athlete quotas and a 35-person delegation across para-biathlon, para cross-country, para alpine skiing and para snowboarding.