Every day at 9 am, Ukrainians commemorate the people who lost their lives in the Russia-Ukraine war. Today Sport.ua commemorates the honored Ukrainian boxing coach Mikhail Korenovsky, who died in his own apartment after a missile attack on a residential building on the Dnieper. The man was 39 years old. Images of the surviving kitchen in Korenovsky’s apartment spread all over the world.

Footprint in sports

Mikhail Korenovsky was born on March 14, 1983 in Odessa. Mikhail has been boxing with coach Mikhail Serzhenyuk since childhood. As an athlete, he became the champion of the Odessa region and later the champion of Ukraine. Moving to the Dnieper, Korenovsky became the head coach of the Sicheslav region boxing team. The specialist taught about a hundred children.

In particular, Korenovsky was one of the first boxing coaches of Marina Moroz, the only Ukrainian in the UFC. “Under his leadership I won my first Ukrainian boxing championship,” Marina wrote on Instagram.

Death

Mikhail died on January 14, 2023, during Russian bombing of the Dnieper. Even in the morning of that day, the man worked as a referee in competitions, and soon after returning home, his apartment was completely destroyed. My wife and two children were outside at that time. Eight-year-old Basya also died, along with the family’s favorite Chihuahua dog, Mikhail.

The photograph of Korenovsky’s bright yellow kitchen, visible through the missing exterior wall of the nine-story building in which it is located, taken by Ukrainian photographer Yan Dobronosov, was widely distributed on social networks and in international and Ukrainian media. Dobronosov used a drone for shooting.

“Just yesterday, instead of this hole, there was my apartment in which I lived with my family for nine years. At the time of the explosion, I was walking with my children along Slavy Boulevard, and my husband came home after the competition, had dinner and was supposed to come to us,” wrote the widow of the deceased, fitness instructor Olga Korenovskaya.

The woman hoped that her husband had managed to leave the apartment before the explosion, but on January 15, rescuers pulled his husband’s body from the rubble of the house.

“A month and a half ago, in this kitchen, we were happy to meet, we sat down to a delicious dinner at the same table… Unfortunately, this was the last meeting,” family friend Yulia Chubsa recalls with regret.

The video of the Korenovsky family celebrating their children’s birthday in the same kitchen a few days before the air strike is heartbreaking.

honoring

Koç was buried after a farewell ceremony held near the local Physical Education Institute on January 17, 2023.

The eldest daughter Margarita decided to take up boxing in memory of her father.

On February 4, 2023, the first commemoration ceremony was held in memory of Ukraine’s honored coach Mikhail Korenovski. The tournament became traditional and was held in subsequent years.

On the second anniversary of Mikhail Korenovsky’s death, the Dnieper City Council decided to create a park named after Mikhail Korenovsky.

What happened next?

On January 14, 2023, at 15.30 Kiev time, the Katsaps attacked a high-rise building on the Dnieper, where 1,700 people lived, with an X-22 anti-ship missile. As a result of the terrorist attack, 72 flats were completely destroyed and 46 people, including 6 children, lost their lives. Another 79 people were injured to varying degrees. Rescue teams spent three days clearing rubble from the area of ​​the missile attack, and on January 17 the search and rescue operation was called off.

The crime was committed by the scum of the 52nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment based in Shaikovka. This regiment is the same one that raided the Amstor shopping center in Kremenchug in the Poltava region on June 27, 2022.

Authorized American publication ESPN The ranking of the world’s strongest heavyweight boxers has been updated. The current WBC, WBA and IBF champion ranked first on the list Alexander UsikWhich has an excellent track record among professionals.

In second place is British Tyson Fury, whom the Ukrainian player defeated twice in 2024. Another representative of Great Britain, Daniel Dubois, completed the top three.

Former world champion and London 2012 Olympic champion Anthony Joshua also recently returned to the top 10, clearly asserting himself with an early victory. Moses Ithauma dropped down the rankings and currently sits in ninth place.

ESPN’s Top 10 Heavyweights:

1. Alexander Usik
2. Tyson Rage
3. Daniel Dubois
4. Fabio Wardley
5. Joseph Parker
6. Anthony Joshua
7. Agit Kabael
8. Filip Hrgovic
9. Moses Ithauma
10. Zhang Zhilei

Tyson Fury’s manager Spencer Brown He shared a striking statement after the Briton’s rematch with Alexander Usik. According to the official, the manager of Ukrainian champion Egis Klimas admitted in a private conversation that the fight was extremely even and the Englishman probably won.

“I met with Usik’s manager” [Эгисом Климасом]and he told me they lost the fight, reporting: “It was an incredibly close fight. You may have covered that,” Brown said.

On the night of December 21, 2025, a rematch for the title of world heavyweight champion according to WBC, WBA, WBO (and also IBO) took place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Oleksandr Usyk managed to defend his title – he won by unanimous decision against Tyson Fury – 116-112, 116-112, 116-112!