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Paralympics 2024: Ukraine's preparations amid war

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Danylo Chufarov's home city of Mariupol was under siege for three weeks in 2022 .

For three weeks , he survived on little food, no electricity and rain water.

He didnât train for six months and became a triple world champion in 2023 .

At the last 10 Paralympic Games Ukraine have finished in the top six in every single medal table.

They competed at 2022 Winter Games despite their country being invaded just a few days earlier .

Paralympic Committee expecting 90 Russian athletes to compete as neutrals at the Paris Paralympics .

Wheelchair fencer Andrii Demchuk crossed the border to Poland with his wife and two children after the invasion.

He ferried them to the border, helped other Ukrainian refugees and delivered jeeps to the Ukrainian army.

Demchuk has since returned to his home city of Lviv , where he has taken on another role at the military hospital.

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69

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66

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36

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informal

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English

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