Two adolescent basketball players killed in mass knife attack in Germany

Four young people are accused of killing two teens from Ukraine in a stabbing attack in Germany.

Seventeen-year-old basketball player Volodymyr Yermakov was stabbed and killed at a bus stop in Oberhausen, Germany on February 10th. He went to Germany to get away from the war in Ukraine in July 2023.

His friend, 18-year-old Artem Kozachenko, was stabbed six times and died in the hospital on February 20, after being in intensive care for 10 days, according to ART Giants.

Both of them used to play for the club’s youth team in Düsseldorf.

The ART Giants said the teenagers were very important to their team and they were very surprised and saddened by their deaths.

The club wrote on Instagram that they will remember Volodymyr as a young person who lived joyfully and had big dreams in sports.

This week, the club wrote on social media that Artem was a happy and funny person who was open to new ideas.

Artem and Vova had a strong and close friendship that showed how important it is to have connections with other people in our lives.

The couple was going back to Düsseldorf after shopping in Oberhausen when they were attacked at the city’s main train station around 8pm on February 10.

A small group of 10 people made fun of them on the bus and asked if they were from Ukraine.

The group attacked the people when they got off the bus at Oberhausen train station. They surrounded them and stabbed them many times in the chest and stomach where everyone could see.

Volodymyr passed away in the hospital not long after.

Artem was hurt with six knife cuts, but the doctors operated quickly and it seems like he will be okay.