| Date of birth | 19 March 1967 | ||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Smila, Ukrainian SSR, USSR | ||||||||||||
| Date of death | 31 March 2022 (aged 55) | ||||||||||||
| Place of death | Bucha, Ukraine | ||||||||||||
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Oleksiy Tsybko (19 March 1967 – 31 March 2022) was a Ukrainian rugby union international for the Ukraine national rugby union team from 1991 to 2003 who was killed during the retaking of Bucha from Russian forces.
Biography
Tsybko was rugby union player, who made forty appearances for the Ukraine national team; some as captain. From 2005 to 2007 he was President of the Union and he founded a rugby club in Smila which has 300 junior members. A former mayor of Smila, he joined the Ukraine military forces to defend the Crimea from Russian forces in 2014 and again in 2022. He died in March 2022 during the Russian invasion of Bucha.[1][2] He was buried at Baikove Cemetery in Kyiv.
References
- ↑ Gallagher, Brendan (10 April 2022). "Oleksiy is one of the real heroes". The RugbyPaper. No. 708. p. 25.
- ↑ "During the liberation of Bucha from the Russian invaders, the former mayor of Smeia (Cherkasy region) Oleksiy Tsybko died". reddit. 2 April 2022. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
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