Ukrainian media reported about the death of film director Pritula, who served in the AFU

Ukrainian film director Stanislav Prytula, who served in the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU), has been killed in the zone of the special military operation (SMO), the Ukrainian news agency UNIAN has reported on 26 January. This was reported by the Ukrainian agency UNIAN on January 26, citing the film director's wife Larisa Titarenko.

"Famous Ukrainian film director and former head of the department of state regulation and realization of film projects in the State Cinema Stanislav Pritula died (in the zone of the SSO. - Ed.)," the agency said in its Telegram channel.

The agency cites Titarenko's message published in the social network Facebook (owned by the recognized extremist company Meta, its activities are banned in Russia), which notes that the man did not become January 22. Under what circumstances and in the area of what settlement he was liquidated, it is not reported.

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Earlier, on January 9, it became known that dancer Vladimir Rakov, who performed in the Russian show "Dancing" and then joined the AFU, was liquidated in the area of the special operation.

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