Ukrainian actor Pasha Lee reportedly killed while defending country against Russian invasion

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Pasha Lee, a 33-year-old Ukrainian actor, was reportedly killed on Sunday in Irpin as Russia continues its invasion of the eastern European country.

According to local reports and Ukraine's Odesa International Film Festival Facebook account, the movie star had "joined the ranks of the Territorial Defense Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in order to protect the country from Russian occupiers." He was killed "as a result of shelling by Russian occupiers," the festival organizers said.

Lee's last Instagram post on Friday showed him in Irpen wearing camouflage gear as he wrote in the caption (roughly translated to English): "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!!!"