CNN —German basketball team ART Giants Düsseldorf is mourning the death of 17-year-old Ukrainian player Volodymyr Yermakov, who left Ukraine in 2023 to escape the war with Russia, following an alleged stabbing on Saturday.
“The two groups of people initially clashed verbally on a public bus on the way to Oberhausen city centre,” the police statement said.
Two Ukrainian male youths, aged 17 and 18 years old, from Düsseldorf suffered life-threatening injuries.
“To escape the war in his native country, he moved to Düsseldorf in July 2023, where he had found his new home.
We wish him a speedy recovery!”The team said Yermakov was an “integral part” of its junior basketball league team and had been called up to the Ukrainian Under-18 national team, even occasionally playing with the club’s first team.
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