Artyom Datsishin is a leading Ukrainian ballet star who lost his life after being shelled by Russian invaders, provoking outrage from one of the Moscow Bolshoi Theatre’s biggest names.
Artyom Datsishin had toured in Europe and the USA and his dance style had “academic expressiveness, romantic elation and psychological depth”.
Artyom Datsishin had performed the main roles in Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, and Romeo and Juliet.
Artyom Datsishin, an internationally-acclaimed star – an Honoured Artist of Ukraine – had been wounded in capital Kyiv two days after the Russian invasion began.
And as a result, he had been in hospital fighting for life for almost three weeks.
A friend of Artyom Datsishin, Tatyana Borovik, said that Artyom had been seriously injured.
Tatyana Bovorik said;
“On February 26, he was fired upon by the Russian military,”
“He was seriously wounded and died in the hospital.”
Artyom Datsishin was 43 years when he died and his funeral is being held in Kyiv today, thus March 18, 2022.