A UKRAINIAN boxing champion has died fighting on the frontline.
Oleksandr Onyshchenko – who was on the country’s national team – was killed in besieged Bakhmut.
Boxer Oleksandr Onyshchenko has died fighting in Ukraine
He was killed in the besieged city of Bakhmut
A statement from Ukraine’s boxing federation said: “Oleksandr Onyshchenko was a Master of Sports of Ukraine in boxing, champion of Ukraine among young men and juniors, winner of the Carpathian Cup, Kuzhelnyi Cup and Arsionov Cup, as well as a member of the national boxing team of Ukraine.
“Oleksandr died near Bakhmut defending the Ukrainian homeland from the Russian enemy.”
The city of Bakhmut has seen some of the fiercest fighting since the war broke out in February last year.
Vladimir Putin’s forces took almost 300 days to seize control of the city which has been described as having only limited wider strategic importance to the war in Ukraine.
Russia pushed forward just 60ft a day, suffered up to 100,000 casualties, and left Bakhmut a shattered hellscape in a painfully slow grinding nine-month advance.
The city was once home to 73,000 Ukrainians and how has been left in ruins.
Pictures show burning buildings and totally destroyed streets devoid of all life after months of what has been described as the “bloodiest battle” of the war in Ukraine.
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