A few days ago, more than 500 spectators at the National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater in Odessa observed a minute of silence before the start of the performance of the La Bayadère ballet in memory of the ballet dancer Rostislav Janchisen, who was killed on the front line defending Bahamut.

The head of the Odessa Opera, speaking of his loss, described him as “a brilliant, talented, worthy, intelligent person.” He also added that “one of the first went to defend his country not by call, not by order, but by his own decision.”

“The artist’s ballet shoes were replaced by military boots, and the sounds of mortars replaced the music of his favorite performances,” the Odessa Opera Theater said in a statement.

The Ukrainian fighter initially joined a volunteer formation of the Defense Forces in the western Ukrainian city of Kamenetz shortly after. invasion of Russia. For almost a year he was a security guard in his native city, and then he was drafted into the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

In his first assignment, he passed near Bakhmut, where on April 19 he was killed by Russian mortars.

His older brother, Ukrainian soldier Dmitry, says that after nearly two months of military training, he has become an accomplished sniper and grenade launcher.

According to Kyiv Independent