Ukrainian actor and TV host, Pasha Lee has been killed while defending his country against Russia invasion.

The 33-year-old actor joined the Territorial Defense Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine last week to defend his country from Russian attacks.

Afriupdate News recalls that Russia military operation invaded Ukraine on Thursday February 24.

According to local reports, Lee was killed on Sunday in Irpin, under shelling by Russian forces occupying the city located west of Kyiv.

The actor had been sharing pictures of himself in military uniform on social media.

In a post to his Instagram account on Saturday, Lee wrote “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 !!!”.

He also was a host on the DOM channel and did dubbing work in such films as The Lion King and The Hobbit, according to a Facebook post by Sergiy Tomilenko, President of Ukraine’s National Union of Journalists. Most recently, Lee appeared in 2021 TV drama Provincial.

The Associated Press reports that on Sunday Russian shelling continued in the suburbs of Kyiv, including Irpin, which had been cut off from electricity, water and heating for three days.

At least four civilians were killed during the shelling near the bridge at Irpin as they attempted to flee the fighting, the New York Times reported.