Just Earth News | @justearthnews | 17 Mar 2022, 10:38 pm Print
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Kyiv: A popular Ukrainian actress Oksana Shvets has died in a Russian rocket attack on a residential building in Kyiv, media reports said on Friday.
She was 67.
The actress of the Young Theatre Oksana Shvets has been murdered in Kyiv during the war. pic.twitter.com/Rp3DcgSbge
— KyivPost (@KyivPost) March 17, 2022
“During the rocket shelling of a residential building in Kyiv,” the Young Theater statement reads as quoted by The Hollywood Reporter, “a well-deserved artist of Ukraine Oksana Shvets was killed."
According to media reports, the actress received one of the country's highest artistic honors, the title of which roughly translates as “Honored Artist of Ukraine” or, somewhat less artfully as “Well-Deserved Artist.”
Kyiv Post confirmed her death and tweeted: "The actress of the Young Theatre Oksana Shvets has been murdered in Kyiv during the war."
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