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Maksym Kagal, 30, was fighting invading Russian forces as part of Ukraine’s Azov Battalion unit in Mariupol on Friday when he was killed, his trainer Oleg Skirta said.
Unfortunately, war takes the best. On March 25, while defending the city of Mariupol as part of the Azov Separate Special Forces Unit, Maksym Kagal was killed,” Skirta said in a statement on Facebook.
Career
Mr. Skirta described Kagal as “the first world kickboxing champion from the glorious city of Kremenchug, the first world champion among adults in the Ukraine team, and just an honest and decent person.”
Kagal, from the Ukrainian city of Kremenchug, had won the ISKA Kickboxing World Championship in 2014.
The boxer, like hundreds of other Ukrainian civilians, had decided to take up arms and defend Ukraine from the invading Russian forces when he was killed in Mariupol.
Mariupol has seen the brunt of Russian firepower, and the city has “turned to dust” as a result.
British defense intelligence analysts said on Monday that Russia had gained more ground in southern Ukraine around Mariupol, where heavy fighting continued as Putin’s forces try to capture the strategically important port.
But the Defense Ministry said logistical shortages, lack of momentum and low morale were hitting the Russian invaders, combined with “aggressive fighting by the Ukrainians”.
Local mayor Vadym Boichenko said the situation is so dire in Mariupol, where some 160,000 civilians are trapped without heat or electricity, that the port city must be evacuated entirely.
Boichenko said 26 buses were waiting to evacuate civilians, who have faced constant shelling by Russian forces for days, but Vladimir Putin’s men had not agreed to give them safe passage.
The 160,000 civilians trapped in the city are surrounded by Russian forces, with increasingly scarce supplies of food, water and medicine.
Investigation
A view of destroyed buildings and vehicles after shelling in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol on Sunday.
Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry said Russian troops are “turning the city to dust”, describing the situation in Mariupol as “catastrophic” with people struggling to survive.
Mayor Boichenko said: ‘The situation in the city remains difficult. People are beyond the line of humanitarian catastrophe. We have to evacuate Mariupol completely.
Speaking about the Russian troops who do not agree to allow the safe passage of civilians from Mariupol, the mayor said: The Russian Federation is playing with us.
We are in the hands of the invaders.
Russia said last week it had evacuated several hundred thousand people from the war zone, but Ukraine said as many as 15,000 civilians were forcibly deported from the Mariupol Left Bank area to Russia.
Mariupol is widely seen as a strategic prize for the Russian invaders to create a bridge between Crimea, annexed by Moscow in 2014, and two breakaway enclaves in eastern Ukraine.
