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A team of midlife cheerleaders in Ukraine refuses to let war defeat them
- Joanna Kakissis
- February 27, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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Ukrainian women in their 50s and 60s say they've embraced cheerleading as a way to cope with the extreme stress and anxiety of four years of Russia's full-scale invasion.
(Image credit: Anton Shtuka for NPR)
Originally published at NPR World