Left without arms and legs. How a world karate champion and an occupier's meeting with the Armed Forces of Ukraine ended.

A Russian occupier and world karate champion Maxim Baharev was elected as the Head of the Council of Sports Veterans at the Moscow Regional Department of the 'Federation of Kickboxing of Russia'. This was reported by 'Glavkom'.

Maxim Baharev is a multiple medalist of world championships in karate and karate-do:

• medalist of the world karate championships in 2002, 2012, and 2017
• gold and bronze medalist of the 2011 world championship
• gold and silver medalist of the 2018 world championship
• bronze medalist of the 2002 world karate-do championship
• world champion in team ranking 2011
• bronze medalist of the 2011 individual ranking world karate-do championship
• bronze medalist of the 2012 world karate-do championship
• bronze medalist of the 2017 world karate-do championship
• world champion in team ranking of karate-do 2018
• silver medalist of the 2018 individual ranking world karate-do championship.

Since 2022, Baharev has participated in the Russian aggression against Ukraine.

In July 2024, according to information from Russian propagandists, in Zaporizhzhia, senior lieutenant Maxim Baharev, along with a squad of occupiers, was surrounded by defenders of Ukraine. As a result, all invaders, except for Baharev, were eliminated. He himself sustained serious injuries.

During his evacuation attempt, several more occupiers who came to help were eliminated.

In the end, the occupier Baharev was saved, but all four of his limbs were amputated.

Let us recall that the armed forces of Ukraine eliminated a traitor from Crimea - football player and futsal player Oleksiy Yablonsky.

Oleksiy Yablonsky was born on June 6, 1989. He was a product of Sevastopol football.

As part of the 'PFS' (Sevastopol) club, he played in the Ukrainian championships in futsal and beach soccer. In 2010, he was even called up to the Ukrainian youth futsal team.

He also played for the 'Krymteplytsia' team in the First League of football, and as part of the 'Myr' club - in the Second League.

After the annexation of Crimea, Yablonsky continued his career in the occupied peninsula in the so-called 'Premier League of the Crimean Football Union'.

The eliminated occupier left behind a wife and two children.