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World climbing champion Maksym Petrenko killed in action in Donetsk region

18 October, 2024 Friday

20:02

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Ukrainian soldier and world champion climber Maksym Petrenko has been killed in the war with the Russian aggressor

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Ukrainian athlete Yevhen Kryvosheytsev posted this on Facebook.

"Sad news... In the battle with the Russian invaders for the city of Toretsk, defending Ukraine from Putin's hordes, my old friend and long-term climbing partner Maksym Petrenko was killed," the statement says.

Maksym Petrenko was born in Luhansk. The Ukrainian soldier was 46 years old. He was a two-time world champion and international master of sports in rock climbing.

On October 12, Denys Skliarenko, a former coach of the Troyeshchyna football club and a soldier, was killed in the Kharkiv region while performing a combat mission.

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