Minister of Youth and Sports of Ukraine Matvii Bidnyi and the Ukrainian delegation to the Winter World University Games in Torino held a working meeting with President of the International Sports Press Association (AIPS) Gianni Merlo.
During the meeting, the parties discussed the role of the media in promoting student sports, in particular Ukrainian athletes, who, despite the war, continue to demonstrate high results in the international arena.
Matvii Bidnyi stressed that media was an important tool for promoting sports and telling the world the truth about the war in Ukraine.
The Minister also underlined the high influence of the media in the issue of suspending representatives of the russian federation and belarus from international competitions. He cited an example when the most titled Ukrainian and foreign athletes used the media to launch campaigns and sign open letters to the IOC demanding that the aggressors be banned from international competitions.