Ukrainian ballet star, Artyom Datsishin has lost his life amid Russia’s ongoing military operation in the Eastern European country.
Datsishin passed away on Thursday from wounds he suffered in Russian shelling weeks earlier. He was 43.
He was a principal dancer with the National Opera of Ukraine and performed lead roles in several well-known ballets, including Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet, and The Nutcracker.
Datsishin death is coming a few days after Ukrainian actress, Oksana Shvets was killed in a Russian rocket attack on a residential building in the capital city.
On February 24, Russia began a military operation in Ukraine, responding to calls for help from the breakaway republics of Donetsk and Luhansk in countering the aggression of Ukrainian troops. The Russian Defense Ministry said the special operation is targeting Ukrainian military infrastructure only.
According to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, almost 600 civilians have been killed and more than 1,000 injured in Ukraine since the start of the conflict.
