List of Americans killed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine

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At least 53 United States citizens have been killed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, as of 19 April 2024, most of them being US military veterans. [1] [2] Most died as soldiers serving in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but several civilians were also killed and one died serving in the Donetsk People's Milita's Vostok Brigade. In addition, one American who fought for Ukraine is listed as missing in action.

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List of fatalities

Soldiers

The following list contains 47 servicemen listed as killed among the Armed Forces of Ukraine:

Date of deathNameAgeMilitary backgroundLocation of death
April 25, 2022Joseph Cancel22 US Army N/A [3] [4]
April 26, 2022Grady Kurpasi50 USMC Mykolaiv Oblast [5]
May 15, 2022Stephen Zabielski52US ArmyDorozhnyanka, Zaporizhzhia Oblast [3] [6]
May 2022Dalton Kennedy26US Armynear Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast [7]
July 18, 2022Bryan Young51US ArmyHryhorivka, Donetsk Oblast [3] [8]
July 18, 2022Luke Lucyszyn31None (US Police)Hryhorivka, Donetsk Oblast [3] [8]
August 23, 2022Joshua Jones24US Army Yegorovka, Donetsk Oblast [3] [9]
October 5, 2022Paul Lee Kim34US Armynear Ternovi Pody, Mykolaiv Oblast [3] [10]
October 11, 2022Dane Partridge34US Army Zaporizhzhia, Zaporizhzhia Oblast
(wounds from 3 October 2022) [3] [11]
late October 2022Skyler James Greggs23N/ANortheast Ukraine [3] [12]
November 7, 2022Timothy GriffinN/AN/A Kharkiv Oblast [3] [13]
November 8, 2022Trent Davis21US Armynear Kherson, Kherson Oblast [3]
November 27 2022Gordon Charles Kaleff39N/AN/A [14]
December 4, 2022Clayton Hightower30US Armynear Kupiansk, Kharkiv Oblast [15]
December 23, 2022Alexander SnihurosskyiiN/AN/AN/A [16]
January 18/19, 2023Daniel W. Swift35 US Navy Dnipro, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
(wounds from 14 January 2023,
in Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast) [17]
February 16, 2023Andrew Peters28US ArmyN/A [18]
March 26, 2023Steven Keith Munroe33N/AN/A [19] [20]
April 7, 2023Christopher James Campbell27US Army Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast [21]
April 7, 2023Edward Wilton22US Army Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast [22]
April 19, 2023Cooper Andrews26USMC Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast [23]
April 26, 2023Nathan Michael Keener31N/AN/A [24]
May 10, 2023Bradley Jarema20N/A Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast [25] [26]
May 17, 2023Nicholas Maimer45US Army Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast [27]
May 21, 2023Uliana Julia Voytovich Neilsen38Nonenear Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast [28] [29]
late May 2023Mikhail Yavorsky42N/Anear Kreminna, Luhansk Oblast [30]
June 27, 2023Ian Frank Tortorici32USMC Kramatorsk, Donetsk Oblast [31]
July 14, 2023Derek Thien Tran28US ArmyN/A [32]
July 29, 2023Andrew Irvin Webber40US Army Donetsk Oblast [33]
July 29, 2023Lance Allen Lawrence28N/A Donetsk Oblast [33]
July 31, 2023Jeffrey Judd Jones48N/Anear Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast [34]
September 4/5, 2023Jericho Skye Magallon28US Armynear Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast [35]
September 27, 2023Dalton J. Medlin24US Army Donetsk Oblast [36]
October 1, 2023David Lee Cote35N/AN/A [37]
October 3, 2023Alex Brandon Coburn23N/AN/A [38]
October 7, 2023David Baturin26N/AN/A [39]
October 12/13, 2023Joel David Beal35USMC Pervomaiske, Donetsk Oblast [40] [41]
October 15, 2023Chase K. Gaia27N/AN/A [42]
November 15, 2023Eric Vargas35N/Anear Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast [43]
November 24, 2023Thomas Gray Harris33USMCN/A [44]
December 3, 2023Brendon Bowersox35US Army Kherson Oblast [45] [46]
December 4, 2023Seth Patrick Bryan19N/A Kherson Oblast [47]
December 8, 2023Ethan Hertweck21USMC Avdiivka, Donetsk Oblast [45]
February 7, 2024James LambertN/AN/A Makiivka, Donetsk Oblast [48]
late March 2024"Andrew"25/26US ArmyN/A [49]
April 6, 2024Cedric Charles Hamm26US Armynear Chasiv Yar, Donetsk Oblast [50] [51]
April 19, 2024Ian Burdette25N/AUnknown [52] [53]

Civilians

The following list contains five civilians listed as killed during the conflict:

Date of deathNameAgeLocation of death
March 13, 2022Brent Renaud50 Irpin, Kyiv Oblast [54]
March 17, 2022James HillN/A Chernihiv, Chernihiv Oblast [54]
February 2, 2023Pete Reed33 Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast [55]
September 27, 2023Vladimir Mironyuk59near Kurdiumivka, Donetsk Oblast [56]
January 12, 2024 Gonzalo Lira 55N/A [57]

Other US casualties

In mid-April 2022, Russian sources presented the passport of an American fighter, Joseph Ward Clark, who they claimed to have either been killed or captured, although this was not confirmed. [58]

Two American fighters, Alexander John-Robert Drueke and Andy Tai Ngoc Huynh, were captured on 9 June 2022, near Kharkiv, by the Russian military, [59] before being released in a prisoner exchange on 21 September 2022. [60]

One American, Russell Bentley, aged 64, was killed while fighting on the side of the pro-Russian separatists on 8 April 2024, in Donetsk. [61]

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