Boxing

Australian power puncher Tim Tszyu scored a stunning first-round knockout over Mexico's Carlos Ocampo to retain his interim WBO super welterweight title Sunday and set up a shot at undisputed champion Jermell Charlo.

Ukraine said Friday it withstood a wave of Russian missiles including hypersonic Kinzhals, which were downed over the Kiev region where African leaders were due to hold talks as part of a peace mission.

"Russian missiles are a message to Africa: Russia wants more war, not peace," Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said.

An athlete who won the European Cup four times in kickboxing, which she started with the aim of losing weight, and her mother, who also started training to support her daughter, have become world champions together.

One civilian has died in Kiev after a "massive" drone attack on the Ukrainian capital, the city's mayor Vitali Klitschko said Sunday.

"A 35-year-old woman was hospitalised, a 41-year-old man died," the mayor and former boxer said on Telegram, reporting that drone wreckage had crashed near a petrol station.

As they state, the Russians attacked using drones, cruise missiles, and apparently ballistic missiles, in which three people were injured.
They said tonight's attack was the eighth this month. A Reuters reporter reported, referring to the testimonies of eyewitnesses, that during the night a series of very loud detonations shook the capital of Ukraine.

Tervel Pulev defeated Joel Shojgreen- the Panther in the third round at a boxing gala in Costa Mesa, California. After a knockdown, the American's team decided to end the fight by throwing in the towel, although the Bulgarian's opponent stood up at the count.

Britain's Anthony Joshua said he should have knocked out Jermaine Franklin after the former world heavyweight champion returned to winning ways with a unanimous, if labored, points-decision victory in London on April 1.

The wreckage caused a fire at a non-residential building, and there were no casualties in this attack.
The head of the military administration of the city of Kyiv, Sergei Popko, reported that Russia had launched 12 drones towards Kyiv, but that Ukrainian air defense forces had identified and destroyed "all enemy targets" in the airspace around the capital, reports Reuters.

Here are the highlights of events related to the war in Ukraine over the past 24 hours:

New wave of Russian airstrikes against Ukraine after Kyiv secures Western tanks

Here are the highlights of events related to the war in Ukraine over the past 24 hours:

With drones marked "Happy New Year", Russia attacked Kyiv on New Year's Day