Ukrainian actor Yuriy Felipenko, who labored with Kyiv Impartial reporters, was killed on the frontline, his spouse Kateryna Motrych wrote on social media on June 15.
Felipenko was well-known for his position within the 2024 tv collection “A Promise to God” earlier than becoming a member of the Achilles Strike Drone Battalion, then a part of Ukraine’s 92nd Assault Brigade, in April 2024.
Having since been upgraded to a separate regiment and one of many founding models of the Line of Drones initiative, Achilles is likely one of the handiest drone models within the nation.
“Yura was killed. Yura was, with out exaggeration, my world, my soul, my gentle. It’s inconceivable to convey this loss. I really feel like I’ve been destroyed,” Motrych wrote on her Instagram web page, accompanied by a photograph of Felipenko.
Felipenko's drone crew was featured in a report by the Kyiv Impartial on Ukraine's use of first-person view (FPV) drones towards Russian infantry assaults in December 2024 as they defended the realm round Kupiansk in Kharkiv Oblast.
Particulars of Felipenko’s funeral might be introduced later, Motrych stated.
Russia has killed quite a few actors, artists, and writers because the begin of the full-scale invasion. Many have fallen on the battlefield whereas others had been killed throughout assaults on civilian areas.
The Kyiv IndependentOlena Goncharova