The International Olympic Committee’s executive board has suspended the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) “with immediate effect until further notice”.
Olympic Councils from the regions of Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia had been recognised by the ROC.
The IOC did not initially sanction the ROC following the invasion, but Russia has been banned from competing as a nation in athletics since November 2015 after state-sponsored doping was uncovered.
Russia’s doping suspension was lifted in March but the World Athletics Council ruled the nation would remain banned “for the foreseeable future” because of the war in Ukraine.
The IOC has been under consistent pressure to ban Russian and Belarusian athletes from competing even under a neutral flag since the invasion began, but in March it told sporting federations they should allow athletes from those countries to compete as neutrals.
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