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Maksym Galinichev, who won the European gold medal in 2017, was part of the 25th Sicheslav Airborne Assault Brigade
the ukrainian boxer Maksym Galinichevwhich got the gold medal in the 2017 European Junior Championship and gave up 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.
As reported ukrainian mediathe 22-year-old sportsman had enlisted in the army as a volunteer and had returned to the front lines despite being wounded in the war twice.
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Maksym Galinichev he was one of the young athletes ukrainians most promising. In 2018 he won the silver medal 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 sports federations ukrainians and the country’s National Olympic Committee are demanding 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 is supported by Belarus.
According to the authorities ukrainiansmore than 230 Ukrainian athletes and sportsmen of different levels have died as a result of the Russian military aggression, which has also destroyed numerous sports facilities.