Six-time Ukrainian kickboxing champion Oleksandr Feshtryha died in battles with the Russian occupiers.
Oleksandr nicknamed “Sakura” was a soldier of the 93rd separate mechanized brigade “Kholodnyi Yar” and a defender of the Donetsk airport. He was injured five times in 2015, two of them seriously.
Sakura rotated his first rotation at Donetsk airport as a volunteer in the summer of 2014. He soon signed a contract with the Armed Forces of Ukraine and joined the 93rd Brigade.
After one of the wounds, the soldier was missing part of the leg muscle, and a bullet remained in his skull, which hit his eye, pierced his nose and knocked out 17 teeth.
“Sakura” was 42 years old, defender was from Chernivtsi. Six-time champion of Ukraine in kickboxing. He was a participant in the Revolution of Dignity, and in the summer of 2014 he went to the front as a volunteer in the “Right Sector”.