Vitaly Merinov, wanda ya taba zama zakaran damben duniya har sau hudu, ya mutu a makon da ya gabata a asibiti sakamakon raunin da ya samu a kafarsa a lokacin da yake fafatawa da sojojin Ukraine a Luhansk. Dan wasan ya shiga rundunar sojin Ukraine ne a matsayin mai aikin sa kai kwanaki kadan bayan fara mamayar da Rasha ta yi wa Ukraine. A lokacin yakin, an sanya shi zuwa Ivano-Frankivsk.
Magajin garin Ruslan Marcinkov ya tabbatar da mutuwar Merinov mai shekaru 32, wanda ya bar mata da karamin yaro.
Hukumomi a Kiev sun yi kiyasin cewa 'yan wasan Ukraine 262 ne suka mutu yayin da suke kare kasarsu daga 'yan ta'addar Rasha.
A saboda haka ne gwamnatin Ukraine ta bukaci kwamitin wasannin Olympics na kasa da kasa (IOC) ya kebe 'yan wasan Rasha da Belarus a gasar Olympics da za a yi a birnin Paris a shekara mai zuwa.
Merinov ba shine kawai dan wasan kickboxer wanda ya mutu yana fada da Rashawa - zakaran damben kickbox na Ukrainian Maxim Kagal ya mutu a watan Maris na shekarar da ta gabata a yakin Mariupol a matsayin wani bangare na sojojin musamman na Bataliya Azov mai ban tsoro.
Mykola Zabchuk, shi ma dan wasan kickbox, ya mutu a lokacin mamayar Rasha. Daga cikin sauran shahararrun 'yan wasan Ukraine da suka rasa rayukansu akwai dan wasan kwallon kafa Sergey Balanchuk, Ludmila Chernetska (bodybuilding), Alexander Serbinov (wasan motsa jiki), ya ruwaito mujallar "Sports Mala'iku". Wannan wata mujalla ce da aka samar a shekarar da ta gabata tare da taimakon kwamitin wasanni na kasar Ukraine don bayar da rahoto kan halin da 'yan wasan kasar ke ciki, wanda kuma ya zuwa yanzu ta fitar da dukkan shari'o'in 'yan wasan Ukraine da suka mutu.
