2023-12-29 19:58:14
Victor Kobzystyy, a player on the Ukrainian basketball team, died at the age of 44 in a Russian attack on the city of Lviv, located 70 kilometers from the border with Poland. According to the rectorate of the municipality of Ukraine, it would be the largest aerial movement, with drones and missiles, since the beginning of the conflict.
EuroBasket in 2001 and 2005
Various local media have confirmed the news of the death of the important basketball player, who was champion of his league twice and represented the National Team in two EuroBaskets in 2001 and 2005.
Victor retired in 2011 and after finishing his career as a professional basketball player, joined the technical team as a coach in Budivelnik and Dneprazot, and was also president of the Kremen basketball club.
Wave of attacks
Local journalists assure that The former player would have died from a drone attackwhich would have hit his house, completely destroying it.
The UN High Commissioner for Human RightsVolker Turkhas condemned the wave of Russian attacks with missiles and drones against various Ukrainian cities (including kyiv, Lviv, Kharkiv, Odessa and Dnipro) in which at least 23 people have died and another 134 were injured according to the latest data from his office.
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The bombs have caused damage to residential areasa maternity hospital, schools, daycare centers, parks, a metro station, a shopping center, and energy infrastructure, so the electricity supply was cut off in various locations in the European country.
“I am deeply shocked by the attacks“said the Austrian high commissioner in a statement where he recalled that “international humanitarian law explicitly prohibits the deliberate and indiscriminate use of weapons against civilian infrastructure.” “I once again ask the Russian Federation to end your attacks on Ukraineand that strictly respects international rules regarding war,” said the United Nations human rights chief.
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