Ukrainian boxer Maksym Galinichev, who won the gold medal at the 2017 European Junior Championships and resigned from participating in last year’s European Championship to continue defending his country, died on March 10 in combat in the eastern region of Lugansk , as reported on Monday.
According to Ukrainian media reports, the 22-year-old athlete had enlisted in the army as a volunteer and had returned to the front despite being wounded in the war twice.
Galinichev was one of the most promising young Ukrainian athletes. In 2018 he won silver at the Junior Olympic Games, and he returned to the podium as second in the European under-22 championship held in 2021.
The young boxer killed in combat was part of the 25th Sicheslav Airborne Assault Brigade.
Both the Government and the Ukrainian sports federations and the country’s National Olympic Committee demand the exclusion of all Russian and Belarusian athletes from all sports competitions, including the Olympic Games, as punishment for the large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, which counts with the support of Belarus.
One of those who have shared the news has been the Ukrainian athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych, on his Twitter account.
According to the Ukrainian authorities, more than 230 Ukrainian athletes and sportsmen of various levels have been killed as a result of the Russian military aggression, which has also destroyed numerous sports facilities.
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