On March 21, the mother of Ukrainian athlete Svitlana Malkova was killed during the russian shelling of Mykolaiv. This was reported by the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ukraine, UNN reports.
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At the time of the shelling, Svitlana, as a member of the Ukrainian national trampoline team, was preparing for the licensing competition for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Germany.
She was preparing to compete for an Olympic license, and in the meantime, racists killed her mother. Svitlana Malkova was supposed to start competing at the World Cup in Cottbus, Germany, tomorrow. There, the athlete received terrible tragic news: her mother, Olena Sivanych, was killed
Olena Syvanych, 55, worked at an industrial enterprise in Mykolaiv, which was hit by a ballistic missile from russian terrorists at about 6 p.m. Six people were injured, and the athlete's mother was killed.
Today a russian missile killed my mother
The Ministry of Sports notes that Svitlana Malkova's first introduction to trampolining began at the sports complex of the enterprise, which became the target of the russians. It was here that she had her first training sessions and began her journey into big sports. Svitlana Malkova is the champion of the 2017 World Games, silver medalist of the 2019 European Games, bronze medalist of the 2018 European Championships in synchronized trampoline jumping.
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6 people were injured and 1 woman was killed as a result of shelling of Mykolaiv by russian ballistic missiles.