Four-time world champion in kickboxing This week, a citizen of Ukraine Vitaliy Merinov died in the hospital. as a result of injuries received during the battles with Russian troops occupying his country in the east of the Lugansk region, Ukrainian media reported today.
Merinov volunteered for the Ukrainian army immediately after the Russian army launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24 last year.
After being wounded in the leg, an athlete from the Ivano-Frankivsk region in western Ukraine returned to the front and he continued to fight until he was mortally wounded.
His defeat was confirmed by the mayor of the city of Ivano-Frankivsk Ruslan Martsinkiv, who said that the four-time world champion he was married and had a two-year-old daughter.
According to the Ukrainian authorities, at least 262 athletes have died as a consequence of Russian military aggression against Ukraine, one of Kyiv’s arguments is to demand the removal of Russian athletes from the next Olympic Games, which will be held in 2024 in Paris.
In early March, Ukrainian boxer Maxim Galinichev died. who won a gold medal at the 2017 European Junior Championships, was also a medalist at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires.
According to Ukrainian media, his death occurred on March 10 in a battle in the eastern region of Luhansk. The 22-year-old boxer volunteered for the army. and returned to the front, despite being wounded twice in the war.
Galinichev was one of the most promising young Ukrainian athletes. In 2018, he won silver at the Youth Olympic Games and was again runner-up on the podium at the 2021 European Under-22 Championships.
Young boxer fell in battle he was part of the stormtrooper brigade airborne Sicheslav No. 25.
(According to information from EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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