These four remarkable young people – the official team of the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute – along with two team leaders, represented Ukraine with brilliance and distinction.
Roman Melamud: Gold in the overall standings and silver in the CTF4EAI Pioneer Round
Oleksandr Petrenko: Bronze in the overall standings and a high placing in the CTF4EAI Pioneer Round
Mykyta Sukovach: Bronze in the overall standings
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finished third in the team medal standings
The team achieved this notwithstanding russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine – arriving from cities that have been relentlessly targeted by russian missiles and drones, and competing with the kind of focus, skill and determination that speaks for itself.
They did it too, despite being placed alongside a russian state-approved team – representing a country Australia has repeatedly named as a malicious state cyber actor.
That organisers allowed this, and ignored formal requests from Ukrainian state bodies, Australia’s own Ukrainian Ambassador Vasyl Myroshnychenko and the Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organisations, remains a serious failure.
But nothing could dim what this team achieved. The AFUO could not be prouder. Slava Ukraini!
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