“After her father died suddenly two years ago, it was as if she had lost the will to live, and neither I, nor friends, nor work, nor anything else could replace it for her,” he wrote.
Kryzhanovsky said that less than a year ago she was diagnosed with brain cancer.
“I don’t know how she conjured this brain cancer, but of all the possible options she got the most complex one – inoperable due to its location, very fast and aggressive, incurable at any cost. We discovered it less than a year ago, at the end of April, when she began to complain of some kind of thorn in her left eye. It turned out that by this time a tumor the size of a ping-pong ball had already formed in her head. Of course, we tried everything possible. Of course, we We visited the best neurosurgeons, underwent radiation and chemotherapy, but everything turned out to be useless,” he said. “From that day on, she faded away every day.”
The actress’s son added that in May 2025, Plashenko, despite the fact that her legs had already begun to fail, played her role. the last role in the play.
“In the middle of summer, her mind began to cloud, and in September she fell into something like a coma – she stopped talking, breathed only through an oxygen concentrator, took food through a tube, did not open her eyes. Today she left, and now she and her father are together again,” he wrote.
Kryzhanovsky added that he would inform about farewell to the actress later.
The actress’s husband, Ukrainian actor Alexander Kryzhanovsky, died in the fall of 2023 after a heart attack.
Context
Plashenko was born on December 29, 1955 in Lvov. Since 1987, she served at the Theater on Podol and starred in many Ukrainian films.
