Oleksii Yanin

Ukrainian athlete and soldier (died 2022)

Oleksii Yanin
Personal information
Citizenship	Ukrainian
Born	(1983-10-05)5 October 1983 Zaporizhzhia
Died	7 April 2022(2022-04-07) (aged 38) Mariupol

Oleksii Yanin (Ukrainian: Олексій Янін; 5 October 1983^[1] – 7 April 2022, Mariupol^[2]) was a Ukrainian athlete and soldier. As a kickboxer, he ranked as the National champion in Ukraine. He also became the world champion in Thai boxing (Muay Thai).

Biography

Oleksii Yanin was born on 5 October 1983 in the city of Zaporizhzhia.^[1] At the age of 9 he started boxing. At the age of 21, he went into Thai boxing.^[3]

Yanin joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine as a volunteer in 2014. He served in a separate special forces unit of the National Guard "Azov".^[4] He died on the night of the 6th and 7 April 2022 during the defense of Mariupol.^[1]

Personal life

Oleksii is survived by his wife and son.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Олексій Янін на порталі «Янголи спорту»". Archived from the original on 26 April 2023. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
^ В боях за Мариуполь погиб чемпион мира по тайскому боксу
^ Чемпион мира погиб в бою с оккупантами
^ В боях за Украину погиб чемпион мира по тайскому боксу
^ У боях за Маріуполь загинув спортсмен та військовослужбовець окремого загону спеціального призначення «Азов» Національної гвардії України Олексій Янін

Russian invasion of Ukraine

Part of the Russo-Ukrainian War

Overview
General	Outline Timeline Prelude Feb – Apr 2022 Apr – Aug 2022 Aug – Nov 2022 Nov 2022 – Jun 2023 Jun – Aug 2023 Sep – Nov 2023 Dec 2023 – Mar 2024 Apr – Jul 2024 Aug 2024 – present Aerial warfare Defense lines Foreign fighters Information war Naval warfare Legality Map Order of battle Peace negotiations Ukraine's Peace Formula China peace proposal June 2024 peace summit Proposed no-fly zone Red lines Reparations Territorial control Women
Prelude	Reactions Disinformation Ukraine bioweapons conspiracy theory Ukraine and weapons of mass destruction 2021 Russia–United States summit 2021 Black Sea incident Belarus–European Union border crisis "On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians" Crimea Platform Zapad 2021 December 2021 ultimatum 2022 Ukraine cyberattacks Zametil 2022 Union Resolve 2022 Stanytsia Luhanska kindergarten bombing British–Polish–Ukrainian trilateral pact Evacuation of the Donetsk PR and Luhansk PR Mobilization in Donetsk PR and Luhansk PR "Address concerning the events in Ukraine" "On conducting a special military operation"
Background	Dissolution of the Soviet Union 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine Annexation of Crimea reactions War in Donbas 2022 timeline Minsk agreements humanitarian situation international recognition of the Donetsk PR and Luhansk PR Putinism Foundations of Geopolitics Novorossiya Ruscism Russian irredentism Russian imperialism
Foreign relations	Russia–Ukraine Belarus–Ukraine Belarus–Russia Russia–United States Ukraine–United States Russia–NATO Ukraine–NATO enlargement of NATO eastward expansion controversy in Russia open door policy

Military engagements

Southern
Ukraine

Eastern
Ukraine

Battle of Volnovakha
Battle of Kharkiv
Battle of Izium
Battle of Rubizhne
Battle of Popasna
Battle of Marinka
Battle of Donbas
- Battle of the Siverskyi Donets
- Battle of Sievierodonetsk
- Battle of Lysychansk
- Battle of Pisky
- Battle of Bakhmut
- Battle of Soledar
Battle of Vuhledar
Kharkiv counteroffensive
- Battle of Kupiansk
- Second battle of Lyman
Luhansk Oblast campaign
Battle of Avdiivka
Battle of Chasiv Yar
Battle of Krasnohorivka
Battle of Ocheretyne
Battle of Toretsk
Pokrovsk offensive

Northern
Ukraine

Russia

Airstrikes
by city

Chernihiv strikes
Dnipro strikes
Ivano-Frankivsk strikes
Kharkiv strikes
Kherson strikes
Khmelnytskyi strikes
Kryvyi Rih strikes
Kyiv strikes
Lviv strikes
Mykolaiv strikes
Odesa strikes
Rivne strikes
Vinnytsia strikes
Zaporizhzhia strikes
Zhytomyr strikes

Airstrikes
on military
targets

Resistance

Russian-occupied Ukraine	Popular Resistance of Ukraine Berdiansk Partisan Army Yellow Ribbon Atesh
Belarus and Russia	Assassination of Vladlen Tatarsky Civic Council Irpin Declaration Killing of Darya Dugina National Republican Army Military commissariats arsons Ust-Ilimsk military commissariat shooting Black Bridge Rail war in Russia Stop the Wagons Combat Organization of Anarcho-Communists Rail war in Belarus Busly liaciać BYPOL Community of Railway Workers Cyber Partisans

Russian
occupations

Flags used in Russian-occupied Ukraine
Ongoing	Annexation referendums Annexation of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts Elections in Russian-occupied Ukraine Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol Donetsk Oblast Kharkiv Oblast Kherson Oblast Luhansk Oblast Mykolaiv Oblast Zaporizhzhia Oblast
Previous	Chernihiv Oblast Kyiv Oblast Odesa Oblast Sumy Oblast Zhytomyr Oblast

Potentially
related

Other

War crimes
General	Accusations of genocide in Donbas Allegations of genocide of Ukrainians child abductions Attacks on hospitals Cluster munitions Incendiary weapons Landmines Russian filtration camps Russian mobile crematoriums Russian theft of Ukrainian grain Russian torture chambers Looting Sexual violence Mistreatment of prisoners of war
Attacks on civilians	February 2022 Kharkiv cluster bombing Kharkiv government building airstrike 3 March Chernihiv bombing Irpin refugee column shelling Mariupol hospital airstrike Stara Krasnianka care house attack Mykolaiv cluster bombing March 2022 Donetsk attack 2022 Borodianka airstrikes Chernihiv breadline attack Mariupol theatre airstrike Kyiv shopping centre bombing Sumykhimprom ammonia leak March 2022 Kharkiv cluster bombing Mykolaiv government building missile strike Bucha massacre Kramatorsk railway station attack April 2022 Kharkiv cluster bombing Bilohorivka school bombing Shooting of Andrii Bohomaz Maisky Market attack Kremenchuk shopping mall attack Serhiivka missile strike Chasiv Yar missile strike Olenivka prison massacre Kharkiv dormitories missile strike Chaplyne railway station attack Izium mass graves September 2022 Donetsk attack Zaporizhzhia civilian convoy attack Kupiansk civilian convoy shelling Zaporizhzhia residential building airstrike Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure 2023 Dnipro residential building airstrike Sloviansk airstrike Uman missile strike Kramatorsk restaurant missile strike Lyman cluster bombing 2023 Pokrovsk missile strike Chernihiv missile strike Kostiantynivka missile strike Hroza missile attack Volnovakha massacre December 2023 strikes 2024 Pokrovsk missile strike 2024 Donetsk attack Lysychansk missile strike 6 March 2024 Odesa strike March 2024 strikes April 2024 Chernihiv missile strike May 2024 Kharkiv strikes 8 July 2024 strikes 2024 Kostiantynivka supermarket missile attack 26 August 2024 strikes September 2024 Poltava strike
Crimes against soldiers	Torture of Russian soldiers in Mala Rohan Torture and castration of a Ukrainian POW in Pryvillia Rape of Donetsk People's Republic soldiers by Kadyrovites Murder of Yevgeny Nuzhin Makiivka surrender incident Execution of Oleksandr Matsievskyi 2022 Ukrainian prisoner of war beheading
Legal cases	ICC investigation Arrest warrants ICJ court case Task Force on Accountability Universal jurisdiction Crime of aggression Criminal proceedings Vadim Shishimarin Alexander Bobikin and Alexander Ivanov Anton Cherednik

Reactions

States
and
official
entities

General	Sanctions people and organizations restrictions on transit to Kaliningrad Oblast Military aid European Union Military Assistance Mission in support of Ukraine People's Bayraktar Signmyrocket.com Humanitarian aid Sanctioned yachts Relations with Russia
Ukraine	Application to NATO Be Brave Like Ukraine Brave1 Ban on Russia-associated religious groups Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War Decolonization and derussification law Delta Destroyed Russian military equipment exhibition For Courage and Bravery (Ukraine) Grain From Ukraine Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Hero City I Want to Live International Legion and other foreign units Belarusian Volunteer Corps Terror Battalion Black Maple Company Canadian-Ukrainian Brigade Freedom of Russia Legion German Volunteer Corps Karelian National Battalion Kastuś Kalinoŭski Regiment Norman Brigade Pahonia Regiment Polish Volunteer Corps Romanian Battlegroup Getica Russian Volunteer Corps Separate Special Purpose Battalion Sibir Battalion Turan Battalion International Sponsors of War Forced confiscation law of Russian property [ru; uk] Look for Your Own Lukoil sanctions Martial law Mobilization Media Center Ukraine National Council for the Recovery of Ukraine from the War [uk] National Multi-Subject Test [uk] North Korea–Ukraine relations Points of Invincibility Recognition of Ichkeria Rescuer City Save Ukrainian Culture [uk] Syria–Ukraine relations Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra United24 United News
Russia	highways in the annexed territories A290 A291 "Tavrida" R260 R280 "Novorossiya" 2022 Moscow rally 2023 Moscow rally 2022 Moscow Victory Day Parade 2023 Moscow Victory Day Parade 2024 Moscow Victory Day Parade 2023 Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly Blockade of Ukraine [ru] Bohdan Khmelnytsky Battalion Censorship in Russia [ru] Chechnya Pro-Ukrainian Chechen fighters Conmemorative Medal "Participant of a Special Military Operation" [ru] Conversations about Important Things Krasovsky case Legalization of parallel imports [ru] Manifesto of the South Russian People's Council Martial law Masha Moskalyova case Metropolis of Crimea Mikhail Simonov case Mobilization Recruitment of irregular forces [ru] Operation Doppelgänger Opinion polling [ru] Orthodox Christmas truce proposal Wagner Group–Ministry of Defense conflict Russian Orthodox clergymen appeal against war Salvation Committee for Peace and Order Special Coordinating Council Ukraine bioweapons conspiracy theory Unfriendly countries list War censorship laws We Are Together. Sports "What Russia Should Do with Ukraine"
United States	2022 Joe Biden speech in Warsaw 2022 State of the Union Address Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022 Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 Disinformation Governance Board Executive Order 14071 Pentagon document leaks Task Force KleptoCapture Ukraine Defense Contact Group Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative
Other countries	Belarus Canada Canada–Ukraine authorization for emergency travel China Closer ties with Russia Chinese peace plan Croatia Denmark Danish European Union defence opt-out referendum Federated States of Micronesia Federated States of Micronesia–Russia relations [ru] France Mission Aigle Georgia Germany German Taurus controversy Taurus leak Zeitenwende speech Hungary India Operation Ganga Iran Closer ties with Russia Israel Operation Israel Guarantees Lithuania Moldova New Zealand Russia Sanctions Act Poland border crisis with Ukraine Syria [ru] Taiwan United Kingdom Economic Crime Act Homes for Ukraine Operation Interflex
United Nations	Emergency special session Resolution ES-11/1 Resolution ES-11/2 Resolution ES-11/3 Resolution ES-11/4 Resolution ES-11/5 Resolution ES-11/6 Security Council Resolution 2623 Resolution A/RES/77/229 Easter truce
International organizations	Accession of Moldova to the EU Accession of Ukraine to the EU Brussels summit European Political Community 1st summit 2nd summit 3rd summit Madrid summit NATO virtual summit Operation Oscar Ramstein Air Base meeting EU–Ukraine Summit REPowerEU Steadfast Defender 2024 SWIFT ban against Russian banks Ukraine Recovery Conference Versailles declaration 2023 Vilnius summit 15th BRICS summit 2024 Washington summit
Other	Consecration of Russia F-16 training coalition Finland–NATO relations Finland–Russia border barrier Iron diplomacy Proposed Russian annexation of South Ossetia Recognition of Russia as a terrorist state Removal of monuments and memorials Streets renamed Ukraine Square, Oslo Serving heads of state and government that have visited Ukraine during the invasion Sweden–NATO relations Swedish anti-terrorism bill

Public

Protests	In Ukraine in Russian-occupied Ukraine demolition of monuments to Alexander Pushkin ArmWomenNow Ukrainian Artistic Front In Russia Angry patriots Club of Angry Patriots Anti-War Committee Suspicious deaths of Russian businesspeople Congress of People's Deputies Council of Mothers and Wives Feminist Anti-War Resistance Flower protests Marina Ovsyannikova Russian Action Committee North Caucasian protests 2022 Russian Far East protests State Duma initiative for charging Vladimir Putin of high treason White-blue-white flag In Belarus In China Great Translation Movement In Czech Republic Czech Republic First!
Companies	Address of the Russian Union of Rectors Boycott of Russia and Belarus "Do not buy Russian goods!" E.N.O.T. Corp. Igor Mangushev McDonald's in Russia Vkusno i tochka NashStore [ru] People's Satellite Starlink satellites Stop Bloody Energy Wagner Group Andrey Aleksandrovich Medvedev Death of Nemes Tarimo Yale CELI List of Companies
Technology	Anonymous and the invasion alerts.in.ua DDoS attacks on Romania DeepStateMap.Live IT Army of Ukraine Killnet Liveuamap Open-source intelligence peacenotwar Russian Asset Tracker Squad303 [pl] Ukraine Siren Alerts Wikipedia threat to block in Russia detention of Mark Bernstein
Spies	Diplomatic expulsions during the Russo-Ukrainian War Russian spies in the Russo-Ukrainian War
Other	Association of Azovstal Defenders' Families Black Sea Grain Initiative Collaboration with Russia We Are Together with Russia Concert for Ukraine Free Buryatia Foundation Free Nations of Post-Russia Forum Game4Ukraine Get Lost Global Tour for Peace Go by the Forest Guide to the Free World Mozart Group Olena Zelenska Foundation Open letter from Nobel laureates Pavel Sudoplatov Battalion Rubikus.HelpUA Ruslan Shostak Charitable Foundation Russia's War Crimes House Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation Spain letter bomb attacks Yermak-McFaul Expert Group on Russian Sanctions Pavel Filatyev True Russia Volos Declaration Wimbledon ban

Impact

Effects

Aircraft losses
Casualties
- Americans killed
- Britons killed
- Canadians killed
- Colombians killed
- Israelis killed
- journalists killed
- Russian generals killed
Economic impact
- Inflation surge
- Moldovan energy crisis
  - protests
- Russia–EU gas dispute
  - 2022 Nord Stream pipeline sabotage
- Russian debt default
- 2022 Russian oil price cap
- 2023 Russian oil products sanctions and price cap
- EU natural gas price cap
Education
End of the Whisky War
Environmental impact
Eurovision Song Contest 2022
- Russia
- Ukraine
Eurovision Song Contest 2023
Food crises
Impact on theatre [uk]
List of notable deaths
Lukoil oil transit dispute
Nuclear power plants
- Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant crisis
Nuclear risk
Religion
Russian emigration
- The Ark
Ship losses
Ukrainian cultural heritage
- art theft and looting
- damaged cultural sites
Trauma
Urengoy–Pomary–Uzhhorod pipeline explosion
Violations of non-combatant airspaces
Women

Human
rights

Humanitarian impact
Ukrainian refugee crisis
- Sobieskiego 100
UN Commission of Inquiry
UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission

Terms and
phrases

"And now I will show you where the attack on Belarus was prepared from"
"Anglo-Saxons"
"Bavovna"
"Grandpa in his bunker"
"Good evening, we are from Ukraine"
"Orc"
"Putin khuylo!"
"Khuy Voyne!"
"Russia is here forever [uk]"
"Russian warship, go fuck yourself"
"Slava Ukraini!"
"Special military operation"
"To bomb Voronezh"
"Strength is in truth"
"Westsplaining"
"Where have you been for eight years?"
"Without you"

Popular
culture

Songs	12 Bakhmut Fortress Bayraktar Bilia topoli City of Mary Flowers of Minefields Generation Cancellation Generation Z Oyda Hey, Hey, Rise Up! Mama ŠČ! Oi u luzi chervona kalyna Slava Ukraini! Stefania Ukraine Crushed
Films	20 Days in Mariupol A Rising Fury Follow Me Turn in the Wound Ukraine on Fire 2 [uk]
Other	Babylon'13 Back to the Cold War Borodianka cat [uk] Ghost of Kyiv Kherson watermelon Královec Region Madonna of Kyiv North Atlantic Fella Organization Newspeak in Russia [ru; uk] Patron "Putler" "Putinversteher" Raccoon of Kherson Saint Javelin Saint Mariuburg [ru; uk] Vasylkiv maiolica rooster Vladimir Putin's meeting table Walk of the Brave "Z" military symbol

Key people
Ukrainians	Volodymyr Zelenskyy speeches during the invasion visit to the United States visit to the United Kingdom visits to Europe Andriy Biletsky Denys Shmyhal Denys Kireyev Denys Monastyrsky Denys Prokopenko Iryna Venediktova Kyrylo Budanov Mykola Oleschuk Oleksandr Pavlyuk Oleksandr Syrskyi Oleksii Reznikov Oleksiy Danilov Oleksiy Neizhpapa Ruslan Khomchak Rustem Umerov Sergiy Kyslytsya Serhiy Shaptala Serhii Sternenko Valerii Zaluzhnyi Vitali Klitschko Yevhen Moisiuk
Russians	Vladimir Putin Aleksandr Dvornikov Aleksandr Lapin Aleksey Dyumin Aleksey Nagin Alexander Bortnikov Andrei Kolesnikov Andrei Sychevoi Andrey Belousov Andrey Vorobyov Dmitry Medvedev Gennady Zhidko Igor Kastyukevich Ivan Popov Mikhail Mishustin Maria Lvova-Belova Nikolai Patrushev Oleg Salyukov Oleg Tsokov Ramzan Kadyrov Roman Berdnikov Rustam Muradov Sergey Kobylash Sergey Lavrov Sergey Naryshkin Sergei Shoigu Sergey Surovikin Timur Ivanov Valery Gerasimov Viktor Sokolov Viktor Zolotov Vitaly Gerasimov Vyacheslav Gladkov Vyacheslav Volodin Yevgeny Prigozhin
Other	Found state, Alexander Lukashenko Found state, Denis Pushilin Found state, Leonid Pasechnik

Related
2023 North Korea–Russia summit 2024 Korochansky Ilyushin Il-76 crash Anti-Russian sentiment Anti-Ukrainian sentiment Antonov An-225 Mriya Axis of Upheaval Azovstal Iron and Steel Works Belgorod accidental bombing Brovary helicopter crash Bryansk Oblast military aircraft crashes Claims of Vladimir Putin's incapacity and death Decolonization in Ukraine Decommunization in Ukraine Derussification in Ukraine Demolition of monuments to Alexander Pushkin in Ukraine Foreign leaders that have visited during the invasion Institute for the Study of War Irkutsk military aircraft crash Ivanovo Ilyushin Il-76 crash Kyivstar cyberattack [ru; uk] Lady R incident Nord Stream 2 Proposed Russian annexation of Transnistria Punisher Russian nuclear weapons Sarmat Russian military presence in Transnistria Ryazan military aircraft crash Siberian wildfires Sinhury mid-air collision [uk; zh] Soloti military training ground shooting Soviet imagery Turtle tank U-24 association Ukrainian conscription crisis Western long-range weapons in Russia Ural Airlines Flight 1383 Voronezh military aircraft crash "The Vladimir Putin Interview" Yeysk military aircraft crash Moldovan coup d'état attempt allegations 2023 visit by Joe Biden to Ukraine 2023 visit by Fumio Kishida to Ukraine 2023 visit by Xi Jinping to Russia 2023 visit by Yoon Suk Yeol to Ukraine Wagner Group plane crash Yaroslav Hunka scandal

Category

v t e Mariupol in the Russo-Ukrainian War
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
Eastern Ukraine campaign Southern Ukraine campaign Category:Siege of Mariupol