On October 28, in the battles for Ukraine, coach and judge of hand-to-hand combat and sambo from Sloviansk, Ihor Chechynov, was killed.
Ihor Chechynov died in battles near Svatove. He served in the territorial defense battalion.
He took up arms for Ukraine on February 25, the second day of the full-scale Russian invasion. On December 30, he would have turned 53 years old.
Ihor Chechynov was the president of the regional hand-to-hand combat federation, the head of a sports club, a coach at the Regional Comprehensive Children’s and Youth Sports School, a national-level judge in sambo and hand-to-hand combat.