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During the first meeting of the newly established board of the Ministry Deputy Minister for Veterans Affairs Ihor Bezkaravainyi reported on the state and development of veteran sports in Ukraine in 2020 problematic issues in this direction and ways to solve them.He noted that in recent years many sports have been adapted to allow Ukrainian soldiers who have suffered contusions and injuries to engage in them as well. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic many activities have been postponed and postponed however with the quarantine requirements the veteran community continues its training some sports competitions are held online.Thus in 2020 five training camps were held to prepare the national team of Ukraine from among war veterans for the international sports competition Invictus Games.The development of veteran sports in Ukraine has the support of international partners. Last year with the assistance of the NATO Mission in Ukraine foreign coaches in adaptive sports and ambassadors from the US Armed Forces wheelchair cycling wheelchair basketball visited.Among the issues that need to be addressed in veterans sports the Deputy Minister named the most rapid development and approval of a standard for the provision of physical rehabilitation services.Minister of Veterans Affairs Yulia Laputina stressed that veteran sports should become not only one of the types of rehabilitation. After all participation in competitions will not only lift the spirits of soldiers who fought but also promote the development of veteran sports diplomacy as a path to national and international stability and positively affect the scaling of the veteran sports movement throughout Ukraine.That is why the Ministry of Veterans is working on amendments to the law on physical culture and sports to make veteran sports a separate sport said Yulia Laputina.
