List of deaths during the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Many notable Ukrainians, Russians and other nationals died during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, either while serving in the armed forces or as civilian casualties.

Those proven to have died as a result of the war include:

Ukrainian military

2022

On 24 February, Vitalii Skakun, a combat engineer, died during the Kherson offensive, reportedly sacrificing himself to ensure the destruction of a bridge to slow the Russian army's advance.^[1]
On 25 February, Colonel Oleksandr Oksanchenko deputy commander of flight training of the 831st Tactical Aviation Brigade, and display pilot on international airshows, died in the Battle of Kyiv.^[2]
On 25 February, Irina Tsvila, a Svoboda activist and soldier, was killed in Kyiv, along with her soldier husband.^[3]
On 26 February, Inna Derusova, a military medic and nurse, was killed by enemy fire while taking care of wounded fellow soldiers in Okhtyrka, Sumy Oblast.^[4]
On 1 March, Oleksandr Kulyk, an Olympic cycling coach, was killed in battle near Nyzy in Sumy Oblast.^[5]
On 2 March, Captain Oleksandr Korpan was killed in Starokostiantyniv, Khmelnytskyi Oblast.^[6]

On 4 March, Valeriy Chybineyev, a sniper, was killed at the Battle of Antonov Airport.^[7]
On 6 March, Pavlo Lee, an actor and member of the Territorial Defense Forces, was killed during the Kyiv offensive.^[8]
On 7 March, Oleksandr Marchenko, a former member of the Verkhovna Rada and member of the Territorial Defense Forces was killed in a battle near Kyiv.^[9]
On 8 March, Sergeant Kateryna Stupnytska from the 3rd Mechanised Battalion was killed in Kyiv. She was awarded with the Hero of Ukraine and the "Golden Star" Order.^[10]
On 9 March, Colonel Serhiy Kotenko, Commander of the 9th Separate Motorized Infantry Battalion "Vinnytsia Scythians" was killed in battle near Zaporizhzhia.^[11]
On 10 March, Yevhen Deidei, a former member of the Verkhovna Rada, and deputy leader of Special Tasks Patrol Police Kyiv-1, was killed during the Battle of Kyiv in unknown circumstances.^[12]^[13]
On 12 March, Colonel Dmytro Apukhtin, Deputy Commander of the 23rd Public Security Protection Brigade was killed near Mariupol during an attack by an enemy column.^[14]
On 12 March, Colonel Valeriy Hudz, Commander of the 24th Mechanized Brigade was killed in Luhansk.^[15]
On 13 March, Major Stepan Tarabalka, an Air Force pilot, was shot down and killed while fighting Russian forces. Tarabalka was hinted by Western media to be the Ghost of Kyiv.^[16]
On 13 March, Aliaksiej Skoblia, a Belarusian volunteer and member of the Ukrainian Special Operations Forces and deputy Commander of the Kastuś Kalinoŭski Battalion was killed in an ambush in the outskirts of Kyiv.^[17]^[18]
On 14 March, Mykola Kravchenko, a public and political figure, and the founder of the Azov Battalion, was killed during the Battle of Kyiv.^[19]^[20]
On 25 March, Senior lieutenant Maksym Kagal was killed during the Siege of Mariupol. He was a kickboxing athlete and world champion in the national team of Ukraine and was posthumously awarded as Hero of Ukraine.^[21]^[22]
On 1 April, Yuriy Ruf, a poet, was killed while fighting Russian forces in Luhansk.^[23]
On 7 April, Oleksii Yanin, former world kick-boxing champion, was killed in battle in Mariupol.^[24]
On 20 April, Ivan Bidnyak, a silver medalist at the European Shooting Championships, was killed in action in Kherson Oblast.^[25]
On 4 May, military journalist Oleksandr Makhov, died during the defense of the village of Dovhenke in Kharkiv Oblast.^[26]
On 7 May, Colonel Ihor Bedzai, Commander of the 10th Naval Aviation Brigade [uk], and deputy commander of the Ukrainian Navy, was killed by a missile from a Russian fighter jet while performing a combat mission in Odesa Oblast.^[27]^[28]^[29]

On 5 June, Lt. Col Dmytro Fisher [uk] former Commander of the 831st Tactical Aviation Brigade was killed in Orikhiv, Zaporizhzhia Oblast when his Su-27 was shot down.^[30]^[31]
On 9 June, Roman Ratushnyi, a Euromaidan activist and soldier, died during a battle near Izium.^[32]

On 19 June, Oleh Kutsyn, former Deputy Head of Tiachiv, died during battle in Izium. He was the head of the "Legion of Freedom" of the Svoboda party as well as Commander of company Karpatska Sich of the 93rd Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.^[33]^[34]
On 26 June, the commander of the 40th Tactical Aviation Brigade, Colonel Mykhailo Matiushenko and Major Yurii Krasylnikov, were killed when their Su-24 was shot down by a Russian anti-aircraft missile over Snake Island in the Black Sea.^[35]
On 7 July, Lieutenant Yevhen Olefirenko [uk], recipient of the order "For Courage" was killed in Bakhmut.^[36]
On 19 July, Oleg Dyakov [uk], a professor of history and law, and volunteer of the Territorial Defence, was killed in Bakhmut.^[37]
On 23 July, Colonel Vitaliy Hulyayev, Commander of the 28th Separate Mechanized Brigade was killed in Mykolaiv by an airstrike.^[38]
On 26 July, Major Oleksandr Kukurba, chief of Intelligence at the HQ of the 299th Tactical Aviation Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.^[39]^[40]
On 7 August, the MIG-29 pilot, Major Anton Lystopad, was killed.
On 1 September, Dmytro Fialka [uk], an Israeli-Ukrainian veteran of the 2006 Lebanon War, football coach, and Ukrainian Territorial Defense soldier was killed in Bakhmut.^[41]
On 7 September, Serhii Balanchuk [uk], a former football player for Dynamo Kyiv and the Ukrainian national football team, a lawyer and a soldier, was killed by Russian artillery shelling near Bakhmut.^[42]
On 12 September, Oleksandr Shapoval, a ballet dancer and choreographer at the National Opera of Ukraine was killed in a battle near Donetsk.^[43]
On 17 September, Major Andriy Nikolaychuk, killed during the Battle of Kupiansk.^[44]
On 27 September, Ablyatif Rustem [uk], a political scientist and Crimean Tatar historian and public figure, died fighting against Russian troops in Kherson Oblast.^[45]
On 28 September, Lieutenant Colonel Ihor Bezohlyuk, founder of the Legion for Ukraine [uk] died in Kharkiv when his vehicle was hit by a mine.^[46]
On 2 November, Tseng Sheng-guang, a Taiwanese volunteer, was killed in battle.^[47]
On 3 November, Brigadier-General Artem Kotenko [uk], deputy commander of the Ukrainian Air Assault Forces, who had commanded the 46th and the 81st Airmobile Brigade^[48] and Colonel Volodymyr Oleksiyovych Levchuk, former Deputy Minister of Veteran's Affairs^[49]^[50] were killed by wounds received in Zhytomyr Oblast when their vehicle was hit by a mine. Kotenko was the first Ukrainian General to be reportedly killed in the war.^[51]^[52]
On 11 November, Yevhen Kolesnichenko [uk], handball player, three-time national champion as part of Shakhtar Donetsk, player of the Ukrainian men's national handball team, was killed after being blown up by a mine in Bakhmut.^[53]
On 13 November, Vadym Khlupianets, a ballet dancer at the Kyiv National Academic Theatre of Operetta and a soldier was killed by a sniper near Bakhmut.^[54]^[55]^[56]
On 16 November, Serhii Mironov, a writer, historian and officer of the Territorial Defense of Ukraine was killed in Bakhmut.^[57]^[58]

On 24 November, Captain Valery Glebov [uk], pseudonym "Achilles", Hero of Ukraine, veteran of the 2014-15 war and the Battle of Izium, was killed in Soledar.^[59]^[60]
On 20 December, Oleh Bobalo, a film director and soldier, was killed in Bakhmut.^[61]^[62]
On 21 December, Oleh Rybalchenko [uk], a journalist, public figure, and military officer was killed in Bakhmut.^[63]
On 28 December, Yezhov Volodymyr Anatoliyovych, developer of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky and Cossacks video game series, was reported killed in Bakhmut.^[64]

2023

On 8 January, Colonel Yuryi Oleksandrovych Yurczyk [uk] Chief of the Special Forces of the Ukrainian State Border Service was killed in Soledar.^[65]
On 14 January, Hryhoriy Tsekhmistrenko [uk], a Canadian volunteer medic of Ukrainian origin, Euromaidan participant and member of the International Legion was killed in Bakhmut.^[66]
On 15 January, Taras Strakhiv [uk], an athlete, was killed in Bakhmut.^[67]
On 23 January, Dmytro Sharpar [uk], a figure skater, drafted into the Armed Forces of Ukraine, was killed in Bakhmut.^[68]
On 26 January, Eduard Lobau (Lobov), a Belarusian^[69] activist and volunteer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was killed in Vuhledar.^[70]
On 22 February, a British military public figure and author of military books, James Gerard Richard Shortt^[71] was killed fighting for the International Legion in Ukraine.^[72]
On 6 March, Major Andriy Lukanyuk [uk], battalion commander in the 80th Air Assault Brigade and a veteran of the 2014 war, was killed by a Russian airstrike in Chasiv Yar.^[73]^[74]
On 7 March, Dmytro Kotsiubailo, leader of the Right Sector paramilitary group, commander of the 1st Mechanized Battalion and 2021 recipient of the Hero of Ukraine, known by the nickname "Da Vinci", was killed in Bakhmut.^[75]
On 28 March, Denys Kirilyuk [uk], a Ukrainian pilot, was killed when his Su-27 fighter aircraft was hit in the air by a Russian Shahed 136 (Geran-2) drone.^[76]
On 31 March, Vitaly Merinov, four-time world champion in kickboxing, died during the battle of Bakhmut.^[77]

Ukrainian Parliamentarian Oleh Barna killed in Vuhledar

On 1 April, Daniil Lyashuk [uk], nicknamed "Mujahid", a Belarusian former leader of the Tornado Battalion imprisoned in Ukraine from 2017 to 2021 on counts of rape and torture of POWs in the first Donbas war,^[78] was killed in Bakhmut.^[79]
On 18 April, Oleh Barna, a former member of the Verkhovna Rada, was killed in Vuhledar.^[80]
On 19 April, Finbar Cafferkey, an Irish political activist and volunteer, was killed in Bakhmut.^[81]
On 19 April, Dmitry Petrov, a Russian anarchist activist and volunteer, was killed in Bakhmut.^[82]
On 21 May, Yulian Matviychuk, a deputy of the Poltava City Council from the political party Svoboda, died in a hospital in Dnipro as a result of a severe wound received at the front.^[83]
On 22 May, Yevheniy Osiyevsky, an anthropologist, journalist and rifle medic for the 77th Airmobile Brigade, was killed in Bakhmut.^[84]
On 2 June, fighter pilot Vladyslav Savieliev, call sign "Nomad", died during a combat mission on Pokrovsk, Donetsk Oblast. He was a MiG-29 pilot who participated in a US-sponsored training program at Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi.^[85]^[86]
On 13 June, Roman Chornomaz, sniper, member of the Svoboda political party and the Svoboda Battalion, participant of Euromaidan and the 2014 Odesa clashes, veteran of the Battle of Severodonetsk, was killed in Kurdiumivka.^[87]
On 22 July, Dimytro Rybakov a Commander of the 47th Mechanized Brigade was killed in combat in direction of Melitopol. He was also a well known journalist and Economic commentator.^[88]
On 4 August, Serhii Slabenko, an ex-member of the Verkhovna Rada and soldier died during the 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive in Zaporizhzhia Oblast.^[89]
On 11 August, Major Tsyb Yuri, chief of staff and deputy Commander of the Separate presidential Brigade died in Kupiansk, Kharkiv Oblast.^[90]
On 22 August, Colonel Serhii Ilnytskyi, deputy of the Kyiv City Council and deputy commander of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army and Commander of a detachment of the 28th Mechanized Brigade died in Kurdyumivka, Bakhmut.^[91]
On 25 August, the Commander of the Separate 55th Communications Brigade Lt. Col Yuri Pushkin was killed in Lyman, Donetsk Oblast.^[92]
On 25 August, Major Andrii Pilshchykov (call sign Juice)^[93] and Serhii Prokazin, deputy Commander of the 40th Tactical Aviation Brigade died in a flight training accident near Sinhury [uk], Zhytomyr Oblast.^[94]^[95]
On 9 October, Lt Col Vitaly Baranov, Commander of the 204th Battalion of the 241st Territorial Brigade was killed in Donetsk.^[96]
On 3 November, Col. Volodomyr Vozny former head of the Recruitment Center of Territorial Defense in Khmelnytskyi was killed during 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive in Zaporizhzhia Oblast.^[97]
On 6 November, the top aide of the Commander of Ukrainian Armed forces Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Major Hennadii Chastiakov was killed by an explosive device on the day of his birthday.^[98]

2024

On 7 January, Maksym Kryvtsov, Ukrainian poet and military volunteer, was killed in battle.^[99]
On 28 January, Ruslan Pomirchiy, a Deputy of the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Council, for the Svoboda party, was killed in Kupyansk.^[100]
On 5 February, Ukrainian soldier Bogdan Borodai son of the Member of the Buchanski Civilian Council that denounced the killings of Bucha, was killed in Bakhmut.^[101]
On February, Oleksandr Bilokon, who was the European and World Champion in powerlifting, aswell as a winner of "The Strongest Man of Ukraine", was killed in battle.^[102]^[103]^[104]
On 15 March, Oleksandr Hostyshchev, Commander of the Tsunami Batalion [uk] of the Liut Brigade, and former Head of Patrol of the National Police of Odesa, was killed by a Russian strike in Odesa.^[105]
On 15 March, Dmitry Abramenko, the Deputy Chief of the National Police of Odessa, died in Russian strikes.^[106]
On 15 March, Serhii Tetyukhin, former Deputy Mayor of Odessa, was killed in Odesa.^[107]
On 27 March, Andriy Antonyshchak a politician and former member of Verkhovna Rada during Piotr Poroshenko government (2014–2019) died by wounds suffered in battle.^[108]
On 6 April, Ukrainian junior lieutenant Serhii Konoval commander of 2nd Infantry Company of 67th Mechanized Brigade died during the Battle of Chasiv Yar.^[109]
On 10 June, Mykola Kokhanovskyi founder of the OUN Volunteer Batalion of the Ukrainian Right Sector was killed in combat in Kharkiv.^[110]
On 16 June, Major Oleksandr Egorov, the deputy Commander of the 117th Mechanized Brigade was killed in Zaporothzya oblast.^[111]

Ukrainian civilians and journalists

2022

On 7 March, Mayor of Hostomel, Yuriy Prylypko, was killed by Russian forces.^[112]
On 17 March, Artem Datsyshyn, a ballet dancer, died from injuries suffered on 26 February from Russian shelling in Kyiv.^[113]
On 17 March, Yevhen Obedinsky, a member of the Ukrainian Olympic water polo team, died in the Siege of Mariupol.^[114]
On 18 March, Borys Romanchenko, a Holocaust survivor, was killed in a shelling attack in Kharkiv.^[115]
On 18 March, Oksana Shvets, an actress, died in a shelling attack on a Kyiv residential building.^[116]

On 23 March, the Mayor of Motyzhyn, Olga Sukhenko, was killed by Russian forces.^[117]
On 31 March, Oleksiy Tsybko, a rugby union player, was killed by Russian forces.^[118]
On 2 April, the Prosecutor General's office announced the death of photographer Maks Levin due to Russian small-arms fire outside Kyiv. He had disappeared on 13 March.^[119]
On 28 April, Vira Hyrych, a journalist, was killed by Russian shelling in Kyiv.^[120]
On 29 April, the Mariupol City Council reported that Alina Peregudova, 14, who won gold at Ukraine's national weightlifting championship in 2021 and was on course to represent Ukraine at the Olympics, was killed by Russian shelling in Mariupol. Her mother was also killed in the attack.^[121]^[122]
On 30 April, Lyubov Panchenko, a fashion designer, died of starvation in Bucha.^[123]^[124]
On 31 July, Oleksiy Vadaturskyi, an agricultural and grain logistics businessman and the founder of Nibulon, the largest grain logistic company in Ukraine, was killed by Russian shelling in Mykolaiv. His wife was also killed in the attack.^[125]
On 12 October, Yurii Kerpatenko, principal conductor of the Mykola Kulish Music and Drama Theatre [uk], was killed by Russian forces in his home in Kherson.^[126]^[127]

2023

On 14 January, boxing coach Mykhailo Korenovsky and 44 others were killed during the 2023 Dnipro residential building airstrike.^[128]

On 18 January 2023, multiple people were killed in a helicopter crash in Brovary, Kyiv Oblast, including^[129]
- Denys Monastyrsky, Minister of Internal Affairs
- Yevhen Yenin, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs
- Yurii Lubkovych, State Secretary of Internal Affairs
In June, writer and war crimes researcher Victoria Amelina died of wounds suffered in a missile attack on Kramatorsk, Donetsk Oblast.

Foreign civilians and journalists

On 13 March 2022, Brent Renaud, an American journalist and documentarian, was killed by Russian forces.^[7]
On 2 April, Mantas Kvedaravičius, a Lithuanian documentarian, was killed while fleeing the Siege of Mariupol.^[130]
On 15 November, Polish civilians Bogusław Wos and Bogdan Ciupek, first instance of a citizens of a NATO member state dying on NATO territory during 2022 missile explosion in Poland in Przewodów, Poland

Russian and DPR/LPR military

2022

On 4 March, Major general Andrei Sukhovetsky, deputy commander of the 41st Combined Arms Army, was killed in combat.^[131]
On 5 March, Colonel Vladimir Zhoga, commander of DPRs Sparta Battalion, was killed in Volnovakha.^[132]
On 10 March, Captain Maksym Misharin, a pro-Russian collaborator, militant of the armed formation "Oplot", was killed in Mariupol. He was posthumously declared a Hero of the Donetsk People's Republic.^[133]^[134]
On 19–20 March, Russian officials confirmed that Captain 1st rank Andrei Paliy, a deputy commander of the Black Sea Fleet, was killed in combat in Mariupol.^[135]^[136]^[137]
On 16 April, Russian officials said that Major General Vladimir Petrovich Frolov, Deputy Commander of the 8th Guards Army, was killed in combat in Ukraine, details were not provided.^[138]
On 22 May, retired Major general Kanamat Botashev, fighting for Wagner PMC, was killed in Luhansk Oblast when his Su-25 was shot down by a FIM-92 Stinger missile.^[139]

On 5 June, Lieutenant general Roman Kutuzov, Commander of the 1st Army Corps, Donetsk People's Militia, was killed in Popasna raion, Luhansk.^[140]
On 9 July, Colonel Alexey Gorobets, Commander of the 20th Guards Motor Rifle Division, was killed by a HIMARS attack in Kherson Oblast.^[141]
On 29 July, Colonel Olga Kachura was killed by a missile strike in Horlivka.^[142]

2023

On 8 February, Captain Igor Mangushev succumbed to his injuries after being shot in the back of the head while in Luhansk Oblast four days earlier.^[143]
On 28 April, The New Voice of Ukraine reported that three winners of the Russian tank biathlon, Maxim Zharko, Bato Basanov, and Alexey Bakulo had been killed in Ukraine.^[144]
On 12 June, Major General Sergey Goryachev, Chief of Staff of the 35th Combined Arms Army, was allegedly killed by a missile strike in Zaporizhzhia Oblast.^[145]
On 11 July, Lieutenant general Oleg Tsokov was killed by a missile strike during the Ukrainian counteroffensive.^[146]

Pro-Russian Ukrainian civilians

On 2 March 2022, Volodymyr Struk, the mayor of Kreminna and a former member of the Verkhovna Rada was found shot dead after being kidnapped.^[147]
On 27 March 2022, Oleksandr Rzhavskyy, a former member of the Verkhovna Rada, was killed by Russian forces during the Bucha massacre.^[7]^[148]
On 20 April 2022, Valery Kuleshov, a pro-Russian blogger, was shot dead in a car in Kherson.^[149]
On 9 May 2022, Davyd Zhvania, a former member of the Verkhovna Rada and Emergency Minister of Ukraine, was killed by Russian forces in Novoprokovka, Zaporizhzhia Oblast.^[150]
On 28 August 2022, Oleksii Kovalov, a member of the Verkhovna Rada, was shot dead during an attack at his residence in Hola Prystan, Kherson Oblast.^[151]
On 16 September 2022, Sergei Gorenko, Prosecutor General of the Luhansk People's Republic, was killed in an explosion of an improvised explosive device in Luhansk.^[152]
On 25 September 2022, Oleksiy Zhuravko, a former member of the Verkhovna Rada, died in a Ukrainian airstrike in Kherson during the Ukrainian southern counteroffensive.^[153]
On 9 November 2022, Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the Russian administration in Kherson Oblast and pro-Russian social media personality, died in a car crash in Henichesk.^[154]
On 6 December 2023, Illia Kyva, a former member of the Verkhovna Rada, was shot dead in Moscow.^[155]

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List of deaths during the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Contents

Ukrainian military

2022

2023

2024

Ukrainian civilians and journalists

2022

2023

Foreign civilians and journalists

Russian and DPR/LPR military

2022

2023

Pro-Russian Ukrainian civilians

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