Ukraine will receive two medals at the Paralympics-2014 because the Russian athlete failed a doping test.

The Ukrainian Paralympic team will receive two medals for participation in the Games in Sochi in 2014. Russian Paralympian Nikolai Polukhin was disqualified for doping test falsification. In 2023, he was accused of using the banned substance trimetazidine. Ukraine will increase its medal count to 27 awards.

At the Paralympics-2014, Polukhin won three medals in parabiathlon: he became the champion of the 15 km race and also won two silver medals – at distances of 7.5 km and 12.5 km in the category of athletes with visual impairments.

Ukrainian Yuriy Utkyn is expected to win two bronzes – in the races of 7.5 km and 12.5 km. At the Paralympics, the Ukrainian parabiathlete finished fourth in these events.

Ukrainian medalists of the 15 km race – Anatoliy Kovalevskyi and Vitaliy Lukyanenko – are set to receive gold and silver instead of silver and bronze respectively.

The final decision regarding the award of two additional medals to Ukraine from the Games in Sochi after Polukhin's disqualification will be made by the International Paralympic Committee. If the decision is supported, Ukraine will increase its medal count from 25 to 27 awards and will also receive its sixth gold medal.

It is worth noting that friends and colleagues of the eliminated Russian occupier Oleksandr Rabotnytskyi, who was a Paralympic Games medalist, were shocked that the Russian Ministry of Defense signed a contract with a person diagnosed with 'organic brain damage.'

31-year-old Rabotnytskyi served as a squad commander in the reconnaissance company. Information about the circumstances of the occupier's death has not been communicated to his family and friends.