The decision allowing Russia and Belarus to rejoin competition drew outrage in Ukraine and Europe following the disqualification last week of a Ukrainian skeleton athlete.

Ukraine's Winter Paralympics team will boycott the event's opening ceremony next month after Russian and Belarusian athletes were invited to compete under their national flags.

"I am very, very angry and outraged by the decision to allow six Russian athletes to compete under their own flag. This is terrible, it's an escalation of leniency towards representatives of a murdero...