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The champion of Ukraine and his family killed by airstrikes in Sumy

Tuesday, 8 March 2022, 23:58
The champion of Ukraine and his family killed by airstrikes in Sumy

Wednesday, 9 March 2022, 00:58

Ukrainian sambo champion Artem Pryimenko and his entire family were killed by airstrikes in Sumy.

Source: Coach from Sumy, Yevhen Leonenko on Facebook

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Verbatim:  "Artem Priymenko, born in 2006, a champion of Ukrainian sambo championships multiple times, died tonight during Russian airstrikes on civilian residential areas in Sumy, on Romenskaya Street.

"… his father, mother, grandmother and two younger brothers, Yehor and Kirill, died together with him".

Background: The Head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration, Dmytro Zhyvytskyy, reported that Russian occupying forces had dropped aerial bombs on Sumy and the vicinity at 23:00 on 7 March and had also shelled Okhtyrka.

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