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The Independent UK
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Formula 1 cancel Russian Grand Prix in wake of Ukraine invasion

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Formula 1’s Russian Grand Prix has been cancelled in the wake of the invasion into Ukraine, it has been confirmed.

F1 have decided the race, scheduled for Sochi on 25 September, is “impossible to hold in the current circumstances” following Vladimir Putin’s incursion into the country that began on Thursday.

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