Five awards for the first day – Ukrainian national team took the fourth place in general competition in Pyongyang.

Vitaliy Lukyanenko won gold in a biathlon race for seven and a half kilometers among athletes with visual impairments. Ihor Repetiukh took the third place. As for female team – Oksana Shishkova got silver in a biathlon race for sportsmen with visual impairments and Lyudmyla Liashenko was third.

Paralympics started in Pyongyang on 9 Mach and they will last for 9 days. Sportsmen from 49 countries participate.