Actress Ruslana Ostapko, wearing a painted moustache, cries as the talks about her male colleagues who joined the Ukrainian army and were killed in Russia-Ukraine war, in the Chernihiv Regional Youth Theater in Chernihiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)Spectators applaud actresses playing male roles on the stage of the Chernihiv Regional Youth Theater, which reinvented itself with an all-female cast, with most male actors at war, in Chernihiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)Actresses thank spectators on the stage of the Chernihiv Regional Youth Theater, which reinvented itself with an all-female cast, with most male actors at war, in Chernihiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)Spectators applaud to actresses playing male roles on the stage of the Chernihiv Regional Youth Theater, which reinvented itself with an all-female cast, with most male actors at war, in Chernihiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)Women walk next to photos of city residents who joined the Ukrainian army and were killed battling Russia, at a memorial to fallen soldiers in Chernihiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)Actress perform male roles, as their male colleagues joined the Ukrainian army defending their homeland against the Russian troops, in the Chernihiv Regional Youth Theater in Chernihiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)Actresses perform male roles on the stage of the Chernihiv Regional Youth Theater, which reinvented itself with an all-female cast, with most male actors at war, in Chernihiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)Actresses perform male roles on the stage of the Chernihiv Regional Youth Theater, which reinvented itself with an all-female cast, with most male actors at war, in Chernihiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)Actresses perform male roles on the stage of the Chernihiv Regional Youth Theater, which reinvented itself with an all-female cast, with most male actors at war, in Chernihiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)Actress Ruslana Ostapko paints a moustache on her face getting ready to take the stage of the Chernihiv Regional Youth Theater, which reinvented itself with all-female cast, with most male actors at war, in Chernihiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)An actress prepares to take the stage of the Chernihiv Regional Youth Theater, which reinvented itself with an all-female cast, with most male actors at war, in Chernihiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)An actress performs a male role on the stage of the Chernihiv Regional Youth Theater, which reinvented itself with an all-female cast, with most male actors at war, in Chernihiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)Yulia Matrosova performs Russian tzar Peter the Great on the stage of the Chernihiv Regional Youth Theater, which reinvented itself with all-female cast, with most male actors at war, in Chernihiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
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Actress Ruslana Ostapko, wearing a painted moustache, cries as the talks about her male colleagues who joined the Ukrainian army and were killed in Russia-Ukraine war, in the Chernihiv Regional Youth Theater in Chernihiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
