‘Attacked for being Ukrainian’: a 17-year-old basketball player was killed in Germany

In Düsseldorf, a 17-year-old Ukrainian basketball player, Vladimir Yermakov, was killed.

This is reported by the Basketball Federation of Ukraine. 

The Basketball Federation of Kyiv adds that Yermakov was stabbed by a group of unknown assailants who attacked him and another Ukrainian basketball player, Artem Kozachenko. He is currently in intensive care.

“The day before another match, young basketball players were attacked with knives on the street simply because they are Ukrainians,” said the Kyiv federation.

Both boys played for the German team Art Giants. The deceased, Yermakov, previously played for the youth national team of Ukraine.

In the comments under the post about the death of the Ukrainian basketball player in Düsseldorf, it is written that he was stabbed by a group of Arabs. This was allegedly because of Ukrainian symbols on their clothes. There are no official confirmations of this at the moment.

Apparently, the information about this came yesterday from the Ukrainian public group “Euromaidan”. They published a screenshot of a conversation where an alleged eyewitness claimed that a group of Arabs attacked the basketball players.