European boxing champion among youth Maxim Galinichev died in the war with the Russian Federation. Tragic news was announced by the Boxing Federation of Ukraine. In May 2022, Galinichev refused to participate in the European Boxing Championship and volunteered to join the ranks of Ukrainian defenders as part of the air assault troops.. Maxim was wounded twice in the war, but returned to combat again..
March 10, 2023 Maxim died in battle in the Luhansk region. Galinichev won the gold medal of the 2017 European Youth Championship, was the silver medalist of the 2018 Youth Olympic Games, and in 2021 won the silver medal of the European Under-22 Boxing Championship. Recall, earlier it was reported that Ukrainian athlete Roman Polishchuk died in battles with Russian invaders near Bakhmut. In addition, we previously reported that during the defense of Bakhmut, the famous Ukrainian handball player Roman Pronyuk died..