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Ukrainian Actor Who Put Stardom On Hold To Fight Against Russia Killed In Action
Rest on, hero!
Pavlo “Pasha” Lee, a Ukraine TV and movie star, has been killed in action by Russian fire. The 33-Year-Old born in Crimea to a Korean-Ukrainian father and a Ukrainian mother had put his fame on hold to join his homeland’s defense.
He had even signed up and joined Ukraine’s Territorial Defense Forces just a day after Russia invaded Ukraine.
Lee had been providing updates on Instagram, and while most of his actions weren’t known, he was reportedly in Irpin – a city just west of Kyiv at the time of his demise.
Ukrainian journalist Sergiy Tomilenko confirmed his death, writing: “He was the happiest and sunniest. At the request of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine, Yulia Ostrovska, the head of the UATV/DOM Platforms, confirms the death of Pasha Lee.”
Sergiy added: “From the first days of the war he went to fight for Ukraine and died in Irpin, where fierce battles are currently taking place with the Russian occupiers.”
“Our words of support are the entire team of the DOM channel, which embodies a noble mission of speech for the de-occupation of Donetsk, Luhansk regions, and Crimea. True, because of Russia’s attack on all of Ukraine, the mission is correct. Now all journalists are working to de-occupation of the country. For the sake of the world.”
However, Lee’s last post was on Saturday, where he was spotted in a military uniform while providing an update that read: “For the last 48 hours, there is an opportunity to sit down and take a picture of how we are being bombed and we are smiling because we will manage and everything will be UKRAINE. WE ARE WORKING!!!”
While alive, Lee had provided Ukrainian dubs of English-langue films, including The Lion King and The Hobbit.
His IMDb page shows eight credits as an actor, including his most recent work on the police procedural Provincial. On the other hand, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has undeniably brought far too many Heartwrenching stories. And in just less than a month into the fight, people committed, and innocents are trying to get out of harm’s way.
