Boxing coach and father of two children killed in Dnipro

On 14 January, the Russian invaders fired a missile at a residential building in the city of Dnipro.  As a result of this terrorist attack, Mykhailo Korenovskyi, an honoured boxing coach of Ukraine, was killed.  His wife and two small daughters survived, because at the time of the attack they were walking on the street.

Tragic news was reported by Mykhailo's wife, Olha Korenovska, and also Maksym Omelianenko, his neighbour who serves with the military.

"Yesterday, instead of this hole, there was my apartment, in which my family and I lived for 9 years. At the time of the explosion, I was walking with my children on Slava Boulevard, and my husband came home after the competition, had a meal and had to come out to us...", Olha said on Instagram. The woman wrote that there was no communication with her husband, but she hoped that he had left the house.

Unfortunately, Mykhailo Korenovskyi did not survive. To help the athlete's family, you can send funds to Olha Korenovska's card, because the family was left without a house.

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Banking details:

• 4149 4993 4600 7535 (Korenovska Olha Mykhailivna)
• Monobank fee

"A wife with two children left without their living husband and father.

The sports family has lost a good coach, whose students have repeatedly won world and European competitions", wrote Vadym Gutzeit, the Minister of Youth and Sports.

He also said that 8-year-old Timur, a young WAKO kickboxing athlete, suffered in the attack on the house. The boy miraculously survived, but he is in the hospital, severely injured and in the state of deep shock.  According to the minister, Timur's father did not survive, his mother has not yet been found, and his little sister needs surgery.

"This is a pain for the sports family. This cannot be forgiven or forgotten. You need to forget about Russian and Belarusian athletes!!!

Sanctions ban for those involved in human grief!", Gutzeit wrote. As of Monday morning, on 16 January, as a result of the terrorist attack, 40 people were killed, including two children. Three days of mourning were announced in Dnipro city.

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