{"id":3057,"date":"2022-03-18T13:16:05","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T13:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worabia.com\/news\/top-trends\/3057\/"},"modified":"2022-03-18T13:16:05","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T13:16:05","slug":"ukrainian-ballet-star-artem-datsyshyn-dies-after-russian-shelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worabia.com\/news\/top-trends\/3057\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian ballet star Artem Datsyshyn dies after Russian shelling"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Prominent Ukrainian ballet dancer Artem Datsyshyn has died, nearly three weeks after being injured in a Russian bombing raid on kyiv, according to reports.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Datsyshyn, 43, a former soloist with the Ukrainian National Opera, died in hospital, her friend Tatiana Borovik said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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She spoke of her “heartache” over the news in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Anatoly Solovyanenko, chief stage director of the Ukrainian National Opera, paid tribute to him as “a great artist” and “a wonderful man.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Russian-American choreographer Alexei Ratmansky also expressed his sadness.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ratmansky, a former principal dancer in kyiv and former artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow, is now an artist-in-residence at the American Ballet Theater in New York. She said Datsyshyn died from “wounds received on February 26 when he was fired upon by Russian artillery.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“He was a beautiful dancer loved by his peers. An unbearable pain,” he added. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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