2023-11-22 23:07:00
2023-11-23 07:07 Compiled by United Daily News Zhou Chenyang/Reporting in real time
Russian actor, choreographer and director Polina Menshikh’s theater colleagues said on the 21st that she was fatally injured in a Ukrainian rocket attack while performing for labor troops in the Russian-occupied Donetsk region of Ukraine, and died from her injuries.
The BBC and Russian official media RT reported that the attack occurred on the 19th in the village of Kumachove in Donetsk Oblast, about 60 kilometers away from the front line. At that time, Manshih was performing a program to celebrate the Russian military festival in a dance hall that could accommodate about 150 people, but he was hit by Ukrainian army artillery fire.
According to a video from the social media “Paper Plane”, Manshih was playing guitar and singing on the stage when an explosion was heard and the lights in the hall went out.
RT claimed that the Ukrainian army reportedly used the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS, referred to as Haimas) supplied by the United States in this attack, and adopted the “double tap” tactic to first bomb the charity music venue Manshih was participating in. Yes, and then lock in the rescuers.
Manshih reportedly died in the hospital from his injuries. The local security department confirmed the identity of the victim to the TASS news agency. A Ukrainian army spokesman also confirmed the attack in an interview with the BBC Ukrainian service. It is said that about 20 Russian soldiers were also killed in the attack, but the Russian army has not yet commented on the attack.
Russian actor, choreographer and director Manshikh was attacked by Ukrainian military fire when he went to perform for labor troops in Donetsk Oblast, a Russian-occupied region of Ukraine…
According to reports, Russian bloggers who support the war criticized the organizers, saying that concentrating dozens of soldiers in one place made the performance an obvious target for the Ukrainian army. The St. Petersburg theater studio Portal, which is associated with Manshih, said it would stage a play she had previously directed in memory of her.
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