List of Ukrainian flag officers losses during the Russo-Ukrainian War

During the course of the Russo-Ukrainian War, including the Russian takeover of Crimea, the War in Donbas and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian flag officers have become casualties including killed, captured or wounded.

List

Name	Rank	Position	Date reported	Status	Notes
Serhiy Hayduk	Vice Admiral	Admiral of the Ukrainian Navy	19 March 2014	Captured, later released	Captured by pro-Russian forces along 8 other officials. [1] Released after order of the Russian MOD. [2]
Mykhailo Koval	Colonel General	Ministry of Defense and Commander of Border Troops	5 March 2014	Captured, later released	Captured by Russian Airborne Forces and Russian civilians in Crimea. Released one day after. [3] [4] [5]
Kul'chyts'kyj Serhij Petrovych	Major General [a]	Head of the Combat and Special Training Department of the Main Directorate of the National Guard	29 May 2014 [7]	Killed	Killed alongside 12 other servicemen when their Mil Mi-8 helicopter was shot down in Sloviansk. [8]
Mykhailo Kutsyn	Lieutenant General	Chief of the General Staff and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine	2 July 2014	Wounded, relieved from position	Shell-shocked on 2 July 2014 while combating the 2014 insurgency in Donbass. Dismissed by President Pietr Poroshenko. [9] [10]
Momot Ihor Fedorovych	Major General (posthumously)	Deputy Head of the Eastern Regional Office of Security Service of Ukraine	11 July 2014 [11]	Killed	Killed by a Grad missile attack salvo. [11]
Radiyevs'kyj Oleksandr Vitalijovych	Major General (posthumously)	Commander of the 21st Separate Public Order Protection Brigade	23 July 2014 [12]	Killed	Ambushed alongside Col. P. Snitsar and a soldier in Lysychansk. [12]
Isa Munayev	Brigadier General of Chechen Army [13]	Commander of the Dzhokhar Dudayev Battalion	1 February 2015	Killed	Killed during the Battle of Debaltseve [14]
Shapoval Maksym Mykhajlovych	Major General (posthumously)	Commander of the 10th Separate Special Purpose Unit  [ uk ] of GUR	27 June 2017 [15]	Killed	Killed by a car bombing in Kyiv, Russian attack. [16] See 2017 Kyiv bomb attack  [ uk ]
Kotenko Artem Pavlovich	Brigade General	Chief of Staff and Deputy Commander of Ukrainian Air Assault Forces. [17]	4 November 2022 [18]	Killed	Reportedly killed along Col. Volodymyr Oleksiyovych Levchuk after a mine hit their vehicle in Zhytomyr, according to Russian sources on 9 November 2022. [19] Death was confirmed on 4 November 2024, by the Zhytomyr City Council. [20]

See also

• Casualties of the Russo-Ukrainian War
• List of Russian generals killed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
• Order of battle for the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Notes

1. A major general is a one-star general, equivalent to lowest General rank in NATO ranks most commonly named a variant of Brigadier General, e.g. U.S. brigadier general and UK brigadier. ^[6]

References

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3. "Коваль: российские военные не хотят выполнять преступные приказы Путина". Украинская правда (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-08-06.
4. "Депутаты назначили Коваля и.о. министра обороны". BBC News Україна (in Russian). 2014-03-25. Retrieved 2023-08-06.
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7. "21 захисника зі Львова посмертно нагородили "Почесним знаком Святого Юрія"". Suspilne Ukraine (in Ukrainian). 26 May 2023.
8. "29 травня – роковини загибелі генерал-майора Сергія Кульчицького та екіпажу військового гелікоптера Мі-8 поблизу Слов'янська" (in Ukrainian). 29 May 2022.
9. Poroshenko: Former Ukrainian General Staff chief shell-shocked in southeastern combat zone, Interfax-Ukraine (3 July 2014)
10. Ukraine's new defence minister promises Crimea victory, BBC News (3 July 2014)
    President appoints Muzhenko as commander-in-chief of Armed Forces, Ukrinform (3 July 2014)
11. "Річниця обстрілу під Зеленопіллям: Україна втратила 36 воїнів, серед них екс-очільника Ізмаїльського прикордонного загону та прикордонника із Сарати" (in Ukrainian). 11 July 2023.
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13. Fedor, Julie; Greene, Samuel; Härtel, Andre; Makarychev, Andrey; Umland, Andreas (2016-10-11). Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society: 2016/2: Violence in the Post-Soviet Space. Columbia University Press. ISBN   978-3-8382-6948-1.
14. "Isa Munayev's War - The Final Days Of A Chechen Commander Fighting In Ukraine". The Intercept. 27 February 2015.
15. "Maxim Mykhailovych Shapoval". Ukraine Memory Book (in Ukrainian). 26 May 2023.
16. "Вибух в центрі Києва забрав життя командира спецпідрозділу Головного управління розвідки". Mil.in.ua. 27 June 2017.
17. "У десантно-штурмових військах ЗСУ з'явився новий бригадний генерал". 22 November 2021.
18. "Maxim Mykhailovych Shapoval". Zhytomyr City Council (in Ukrainian). 4 November 2024.
19. "Появились сообщения о гибели бригадного генерала ВСУ Артема Котенко". www.mk.ru. 9 November 2022. Retrieved Apr 2, 2023.
20. "Zhytomyr City Council". Zhytomyr City Council (in Ukrainian). 4 November 2024.