Hobbit actor Pasha Lee, 33, who quit to join fight against Russians killed by shell

UKRAINIAN actor and TV host Pasha Lee who quit his job and joined the army to defend his country from the Russian invasion has been killed in shelling. The 33-year-old had only signed up to Ukraine’s Territorial Defence Forces last week but died during Russian shelling in Irpin, just northwest of Kyiv. In a tragic last Instagram post on Saturday, Lee shared a picture of himself in his military uniform. He 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!” It came as four civilians including a family of three were killed in the same city as they tried to flee the Russian bombardment. Most read in News COLD-BLOODED MURDER Mum, son & girl, 8, killed as merciless Russians shell fleeing families BOMB ALERT Bomb squad and armed cops at '9-hour standoff' at caravan park close to airport lift-off US gives Poland green light to supply jets to Ukraine but Russia threatens 'war' NUKE FEAR Russia 'fires rockets at nuclear reactor' amid warning of 'large scale disaster' FEEL THE CHILL Snow to fall in just DAYS with gale-force winds despite spring blooming ON THE WARPATH I'm furious as the council wants to build a public path through my GARDEN