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What the UPA veterans' ruling meant in December 2018
Summary
A look back at a status decision for Ukrainian Insurgent Army veterans, and a boxing title won days earlier.
What did Ukraine's news agenda look like on 7 December 2018? Two items stood out in the days around that date, one political and one from sport.
On 6 December 2018, it was reported that veterans of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) had been recognised as participants in combat operations. The report is brief: it states the recognition itself and nothing about how it would be applied.
A few days earlier, on 1 December 2018, Oleksandr Gvozdyk beat Adonis Stevenson to become the WBC light-heavyweight boxing world champion.
The two reports covered very different subjects. Both were part of the news flow as 7 December 2018 began.
