Last week, the IOC said the Olympic Council of Asia had offered Russian and Belarusian athletes the chance to compete in Asia, drawing an outcry from Kyiv which has called for Russian sportspeople to be banned over Russia's invasion.
Zelenskiy said that allowing Russia to compete at the 2024 Games would be tantamount to showing that "terror is somehow acceptable".
Belarus has allowed Moscow to use its territory as a staging post of what Russia calls its "special military operation" in Ukraine.
Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said on Monday that the IOC was "promoting violence, mass murders, destruction" and that a Russian presence at the Games would constitute giving the country "a platform to promote genocide".
"As the conflict continues, Paris 2024 would like to express its full solidarity with Ukraine, its people and the Ukrainian Olympic and Paralympic movements, who are faced with an unimaginable crisis," Paris 2024 told Reuters in a written statement on Wednesday, stressing that the IOC had taken several measures against Russia and Belarus.
"In response to this, the International Olympic Committee (IOC), has taken a number of sanctions since February 2022 including: No international sports event is organised or supported by an International Federation or National Olympic Committee in Russia or Belarus;
"No flags, anthems, colours or any other identification of these countries are displayed at any sporting event or meeting, including at all venues;
"No representative of the Russian government or state shall be invited or accredited to any international sporting event or meeting."
According to Paris 2024, those sanctions "directly or indirectly affect the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes in certain qualifying events for Paris 2024".
Paris 2024 explained that their hands were tied on who could qualify for the next Summer Games.
"With regard to the presence of Russian and Belarusian athletes at the Paris 2024 Games, it should be recalled that the qualification system is determined by the international federations, the IOC and the IPC (International Paralympic Committee).
"Our wish is that the Olympic movement, the Paralympic movement and the athletes experience the Paris 2024 Games in a spirit of peace, respecting the values of fraternity and solidarity."
The Paris 2024 Olympics will be held from July 26th-August 11th and the Paralympics from August 28th-September 8th.
Latvia would not send athletes to Paris
Latvia would not send athletes to an Olympic Games that included Russian and Belarusian nationals while the invasion in Ukraine is ongoing, a spokesperson for the country's Olympic committee said on Wednesday.
"If we need to make a decision now, of course, we will not go to such a competition. But the Paris Games is a year and a half away. We will see what happens in Ukraine - we hope Ukrainian people will win this war, and we will be in a new situation," the spokesperson told Reuters.
Latvia, which borders Russia, has been one of the strongest supporters of Ukraine in the European Union and NATO, together with its Baltic neighbours Estonia and Lithuanian.
Neither the Lithuanian nor Estonian National Olympic Committees are considering boycotts of Paris Olympics, their chairs told domestic media on Tuesday.
Foreign ministers of the three countries and Poland on Tuesday agreed that Russian and Belarusian athletes in the Olympics are "unacceptable" so long as the invasion continues, Latvian foreign minister Edgars Rinkevics said.
The Baltic ministers of sport will meet on Thursday to discuss a joint appeal to the IOC to ban Russian and Belarus sportsmen from all international competitions, the Lithuanian Minister of Education, Science and Sport said on Wednesday.
Svitolina weighs in
Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina (28) also called on Wednesday for Russian and Belarusian athletes to be banned from the Games in Paris hours after Latvia joined Kyiv's threats of a boycott.
"The Olympics are the biggest dream and ultimate privilege for athletes. They are the largest platform for inclusion and diversity in sports, capturing the attention of the world," Svitolina said in a statement on Twitter.
"With this in mind, we must stick to banning Russian and Belarusian athletes... that we are united in the sanctions imposed against Russia and Belarus and that there are consequences for the heinous acts of their governments.
"Their lives cannot continue as normal and the world, nor the Russian and Belarusian people, can be ignorant of the atrocities they are committing in Ukraine."
Svitolina, married to fellow tennis player Gael Monfils, reached her career-high ranking of world number three in 2017 and has not played since giving birth to her first child last year.
