Professional skier Yevhen Malyshev was also killed while fighting in an attempt to stop Putin's forces from advancing.

He joined the🗝 Ukrainian army as a tank commander but is said to have died defending the capital Kyiv last Friday

Above all, the🗝 IBU expresses its deepest condolences on the loss of former Ukrainian biathlete Yevhen Malyshev (19), who died this week serving🗝 in the Ukrainian military.

'There are practically no areas left in Kharkiv where an artillery shell has not yet hit': Interior🗝 Ministry official