Top Ukrainain actress blown up by Russian rocket attack as she slept in her Kyiv apartment

Oksana Shvets, one in every of Ukraine’s most well-known stage actresses has been killed in a Russian rocket assault whereas she slept in an residence in southeast Kyiv.

Her loss of life was confirmed by the Younger Theatre, a Ukrainian theatre firm she had beforehand been working with.

They posted a tribute to the 67-year-old actress alongside an image of the theatre and movie star.

In an announcement, translated from Ukrainian, the theatre firm wrote on social media: ‘Vibrant reminiscence to the gifted actress! There isn’t a forgiveness for the enemy that has come to our land!’.

The Kyiv Submit has additionally confirmed the actor’s passing, including on social media that she had been ‘murdered in Kyiv through the conflict’.

In line with the theatre’s web site, Shvets had graduated from Ivan Franko theatre faculty in 1975 and had a profession that spanned a long time. She had additionally been the recipient of the Merited Artist of Ukraine award, one in every of Ukraine’s highest and most coveted honours.

Russian troops have continued to assault the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, and launched a barrage of missiles in opposition to an plane restore set up at an airport on the outskirts of the western metropolis of Lviv, near the Polish border. One individual was reported wounded.

Ukraine mentioned it had shot down two of six missiles within the volley, which got here from the Black Sea.

The early morning barrage of missiles on Lviv’s edge was the closest strike but to the centre of the town, which has change into a crossroads for individuals fleeing from different components of Ukraine and for others coming into to ship assist or battle.

In metropolis after metropolis round Ukraine, hospitals, faculties, and buildings the place individuals sought security have been attacked. Rescue staff have been nonetheless trying to find survivors within the ruins of a theatre that served as a shelter when it was blasted by a Russian airstrike on Wednesday within the besieged southern metropolis of Mariupol.

Ludmyla Denisova, the Ukrainain parliament’s human rights commissioner, mentioned on Friday that 130 individuals had survived the theatre bombing.

‘As of now, we all know that 130 individuals have been evacuated, however in accordance with our knowledge, there are nonetheless greater than 1,300 individuals in these basements, on this bomb shelter,’ Denisova instructed Ukrainian tv. ‘We pray that they’ll all be alive, however to date there isn’t any details about them.’