In Israel the street with the Consulate of the Russian Federation was named after a Ukrainian football player who died in the war

The City Hall of the Israeli city of Hifa decided to honor the memory of Sergei Balanchuk, who played in Bakhmut, who played in the Maccabi Haifab in 1996-1999. In the Israeli city of Haifa, they decided to rename in honor of the Ukrainian football player killed in the war, Sergei Balanchuk Street, where the Consulate of the Russian Federation is located. This was reported by the Israeli portal Sport 5.

The publication states that in this way the city decided to honor the memory of a football player who played for the Maccabi Haifab in 1996-1999. The idea to name one of the city streets with the name of the Ukrainian athlete was put forward by a member of the Council Hifa. After the proposal was approved, the municipality decided that it would be the street on which the Consulate of Russia is located. Last July, Dynamo FC reported the death of Sergiy Balanchuk in the war.

The 47-year-old football player was killed in Bakhmut, Donetsk region as a result of artillery shelling of Russian invaders. "Its human essence was now, when he went to defend Ukraine without thought. Not everyone is able to prove himself so. Especially with a great education on his shoulders, a good job," - said Anatoliy Kroshchenko about Sergei one of his first coaches.

It should be reminded that in November 2022, representatives of the Municipal Council of the German Leipzig voted to rename the street on which the Russian Consulate was located, in honor of 96-year-old resident of Kharkiv Boris Romanchenko, who died as a result of Russian shelling. We also wrote that in October last year, the Kyiv City Council renamed more than 40 streets, lanes and squares in the capital, the names of which are related to the Russian aggressor or with the Soviet era.