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russia's full-scale invasion has already killed 35 Ukrainian athletes

14.05.2022

Ukraine


The Sports Committee of Ukraine has launched a website with information about the dead athletes. The list of 35 dead includes athletes, football players, gymnasts, boxers, heavyweights, rowers, kickboxers, rugby players, weightlifters, chess players, sambists, biathletes.


Most of the athletes fell in battle, during the performance of tasks. But the site also contains children's names.


In the blocked Mariupol, 14-year-old weightlifter Alina Peregudova was killed during shelling. An air bomb dropped on a residential building claiming the live of 11-year-old gymnast Kateryna Dyachenko. And a missile attack on the residential sector of Sumy - 16-year-old sambo wrestler Artem Priymenko.


There are also women on the death toll. For example, bodybuilder Lyudmyla Chernetska was killed by an enemy missile that hit a residential building in Odessa region.





Victims: 35 people dead

Source: Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Committee on Youth and Sports

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