Odesa artist died saving his wounded comrade-in-arms

Odesa artist, prop and sculptor Mykhailo Mukha died at the front trying to save a wounded soldier.

This was reported by Borys Volodymyrskyi, a former teacher at the Odesa Theater and Art College, on his Facebook page.

He noted that Mykhailo Mukha was once his student at the college.

"My old student at the Odesa Theater and Art College, Mykhailo Mukha, a bright, sincere, talented man, died at the front. He died saving his wounded comrade," the post reads.

Mykhailo Mukha worked in Odesa and Kyiv. In particular, at the Dovzhenko Kyiv Film Studio from June 2005 to 2008. And for eight years at the Odesa Theater and Art College, he made scenery for film and theater productions.

Earlier, last fall, the chief power engineer of the Odesa Film Studio, Oleksandr Torovets , with the call sign "Odesa," was killed in the fighting for Ukraine.

Also last fall, Oleksandr Popov, a former cameraman for Suspilne Mykolaiv TV channel , was killed at the front near Kupiansk, Kharkiv region. He was defending Ukraine as part of the 95th separate air assault brigade.

A month earlier, engineer of the first category Serhiy Arkhipov was killed while defending Ukraine's independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity from Russian invaders. He worked at the Odesa National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater.

And on November 2, 2023, Odesa said goodbye to Andriy Hrushetskyi, an activist and volunteer with the Azov Self-Defense Force who died on June 18, 2022, in Zaporizhzhia region.

It should be noted that according to the Institute of Mass Information, since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the occupiers have killed 70 journalists, 10 of them while performing professional journalistic activities.