Actor Yevhen Svitlychnyi killed in action

Actor Yevhen Svitlychnyi has been killed in Russia's war against Ukraine.

Source: Ukrainian producer Denys Ivanov; Ukrainian film director Oleh Sentsov

Details: Ivanov wrote that Svitlychnyi was the actor who embodied the character of Karas in the film Nosorih (Rhino) [a Ukrainian feature film directed by Oleh Sentsov. The film is set in the 1990s in Ukraine. The protagonist, a gangster nicknamed Nosorih (Rhino), falls into the grip of the Ukrainian criminal world of the 1990s and begins his bloody journey, which leads him to an unexpected place – ed.].

Sentsov said: "Zheka Svitlychnyi. An athlete, an actor, a warrior. Died like a hero, defending our Motherland."

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