Maksym Kagal

Maksym Kagal
	Kagal with Azov Regiment flag
Personal information
Citizenship	Ukraine
Born	1 December 1991; Kremenchuk, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Died	25 March 2022 (aged 30); Mariupol, Ukraine

Maksym Volodymyrovych Kagal (Ukrainian: Максим Володимирович Кагал; 1 December 1991^[1] – 25 March 2022^[2]) was a Ukrainian athlete-kickboxer and a soldier.^[3]

Career

Maskym Kagal was a world champion on the national team of Ukraine and bronze medalist in kickboxing according to ISKA 2014.^[4] He was a silver medalist of the open championship of Kremenchuk in rugby-7.^[5] Kagal was a bronze medalist in the K-1 section (weight category up to 60 kg).^[6]

Death

He served in the Azov Battalion as a senior lieutenant under the call sign "Piston". On 25 March 2022, he was killed defending Mariupol from Russian forces.^[7] He was posthumously awarded Hero of Ukraine.^[8]

References

^ "Окупантів, що ставали на його шляху, — чекала неминуча смерть". armyinform.com.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 13 April 2022.
^ "Чемпион мира по кикбоксингу погиб при обороне Мариуполя". sport.segodnya.ua (in Russian). Retrieved 13 April 2022.
^ "Защищая Мариуполь в составе полка "Азов" погиб чемпион мира по кикбоксингу". РБК-Украина (in Russian). Retrieved 13 April 2022.
^ Шаховец, Денис. "В бою за Мариуполь погиб чемпион мира по кикбоксингу". СПОРТ.UA (in Russian). Retrieved 13 April 2022.
^ "Российские оккупанты убили в Мариуполе чемпиона мира по кикбоксингу Максима Кагала". Вільне радіо. 27 March 2022. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
^ "Скирта Олег Сергійович". Кафедра Здоров'я людини та фізичної культури (in Ukrainian). 28 September 2020. Archived from the original on 1 June 2022. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
^ "Maksym Kagal: Kickboxing champion killed defending Mariupol from Russian forces". The Independent. 28 March 2022.
^ "УКАЗ ПРЕЗИДЕНТА УКРАЇНИ №201/2022" (in Ukrainian). 2 April 2022.

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[1] "Окупантів, що ставали на його шляху, — чекала неминуча смерть". armyinform.com.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 13 April 2022.

[2] "Чемпион мира по кикбоксингу погиб при обороне Мариуполя". sport.segodnya.ua (in Russian). Retrieved 13 April 2022.

[3] "Защищая Мариуполь в составе полка "Азов" погиб чемпион мира по кикбоксингу". РБК-Украина (in Russian). Retrieved 13 April 2022.

[4] Шаховец, Денис. "В бою за Мариуполь погиб чемпион мира по кикбоксингу". СПОРТ.UA (in Russian). Retrieved 13 April 2022.

[5] "Российские оккупанты убили в Мариуполе чемпиона мира по кикбоксингу Максима Кагала". Вільне радіо. 27 March 2022. Retrieved 13 April 2022.

[6] "Скирта Олег Сергійович". Кафедра Здоров'я людини та фізичної культури (in Ukrainian). 28 September 2020. Archived from the original on 1 June 2022. Retrieved 13 April 2022.

[7] "Maksym Kagal: Kickboxing champion killed defending Mariupol from Russian forces". The Independent. 28 March 2022.

[8] "УКАЗ ПРЕЗИДЕНТА УКРАЇНИ №201/2022" (in Ukrainian). 2 April 2022.

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War in Donbas (2014–2022)	2014 battle September 2014 offensive January 2015 rocket attack Year of Freedom. Mariupol After DNR The City of the Heroes
Siege of Mariupol (2022)	Hospital airstrike Theatre airstrike Azovstal Iron and Steel Works 20 Days in Mariupol
Russian people	Konstantin Ivashchenko Andrei Kolesnikov Oleg Mityaev Andrei Paliy
Ukrainian people	Dmytro Apukhtin Volodymyr Baraniuk Vadym Boychenko Ihor Dashko Maksym Kagal Dmytro Kozatskyi Bohdan Krotevych Sviatoslav Palamar Vjekoslav Prebeg Denys Prokopenko Serhii Volynskyi Oleksii Yanin
Pro-Ukrainian volunteers	Aiden Aslin Shaun Pinner Brahim Saadoune
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