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

A number of Ukrainian flag officers have been killed, wounded or captured during the Russo-Ukrainian War, including the Russian takeover of Crimea, the War in Donbas and the ongoing war. As of December 2025, this list includes 9 officers, including three of those who were promoted to general rank posthumously and one foreign general.

List

Image	Name	Rank	Position	Date reported	Status	Notes
2014 Russian annexation of Crimea
	Mykhailo Koval	Colonel General	Human Recources manager, State Border Guard Service of Ukraine	5 March 2014	Captured, later released	Captured by Russian Airborne Forces servicemen in Crimea. Released one day after. [1] [2] [3]
	Serhiy Hayduk	Counter admiral [a]	Commander, Ukrainian Navy	19 March 2014	Captured, later released	Captured by pro-Russian forces alongside 8 other officials. [4] Released one day after. [5]
War in Donbass (2014–2022)
	Serhii Kulchytskyi	Major General	Chief, Combat and Special Training Department of the National Guard of Ukraine	29 May 2014 [6]	Killed	Killed alongside 12 other servicemen when their Mil Mi-8 helicopter was shot down in Sloviansk. [7]
	Mykhailo Kutsyn	Lieutenant General	Chief of the General Staff, Armed Forces of Ukraine	2 July 2014	Wounded	Shell-shocked in July 2014 in the Donbas war. Dismissed from his position by President Poroshenko. [8] [9]
	Ihor Fedorovych Momot  [ uk ]	Colonel [b]	Deputy Chief, Eastern Regional Office of State Border Guard Service of Ukraine; Chief, Border Guard Training Center  [ uk ]	11 July 2014 [10]	Killed	Killed by a Grad salvo in the Zelenopillia rocket attack. [10]
	Oleksandr Vitaliyovych Radievsky  [ uk ]	Colonel [c]	Commander, 21st Separate Public Order Protection Brigade	23 July 2014 [11]	Killed	Ambushed alongside a battalion commander and a soldier in Lysychansk. [11]
	Isa Munayev	Brigadier General of Chechen National Army [12]	Commander, Dzhokhar Dudayev Battalion	1 February 2015	Killed	Killed by tank shell shrapnel during the Battle of Debaltseve [13]
	Maksym Shapoval	Colonel [d]	Commander, 10th Special Purpose Detachment	27 June 2017 [14]	Killed	Killed by a car bombing in central Kyiv. [15]
Russo-Ukrainian War (2022–present)
	Artem Kotenko	Brigadier General	Chief of Staff, Ukrainian Air Assault Forces [16]	4 November 2022 [17]	Killed	According to Russian sources, Kotenko, alongside another officer, died of shrapnel wounds or wounds he sustained in a car crash. [18] His death was confirmed by the Zhytomyr City Council on 4 November 2024. [19]

See also

• Casualties of the Russo-Ukrainian War
• List of Russian generals killed during the Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present)
• Order of battle for the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Notes

1. Promoted to vice admiral on 23 August 2014
2. Posthumously promoted to major general on 12 July 2014
3. Posthumously promoted to major general on 25 July 2014
4. Posthumously promoted to major general on 30 June 2017

References

1. "Коваль: российские военные не хотят выполнять преступные приказы Путина". Украинская правда (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-08-06.
2. "Депутаты назначили Коваля и.о. министра обороны". BBC News Україна (in Russian). 2014-03-25. Retrieved 2023-08-06.
3. "Рада приняла отставку и.о. министра обороны Тенюха - Новости Харькова и Харьковской области. МГ «Объектив»". archive.objectiv.tv. Retrieved 2023-08-06.
4. "Crimean hostages put in an electric chair, beaten, shot at". khpg.org.ua. Retrieved 2014-05-01.
5. Jade Walker (2014-03-20). "Ukrainian Navy Commander Released: Serhiy Haiduk, Other Hostages Freed By Crimean Authorities". Huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2014-05-01.
6. "21 захисника зі Львова посмертно нагородили "Почесним знаком Святого Юрія"". Suspilne Ukraine (in Ukrainian). 26 May 2023.
7. "29 травня – роковини загибелі генерал-майора Сергія Кульчицького та екіпажу військового гелікоптера Мі-8 поблизу Слов'янська" (in Ukrainian). 29 May 2022.
8. Poroshenko: Former Ukrainian General Staff chief shell-shocked in southeastern combat zone, Interfax-Ukraine (3 July 2014)
9. 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)
10. "Річниця обстрілу під Зеленопіллям: Україна втратила 36 воїнів, серед них екс-очільника Ізмаїльського прикордонного загону та прикордонника із Сарати" (in Ukrainian). 11 July 2023.
11. ""Радієвський Олександр Віталійович ("Маузер")"" ["Oleksandr Vitaliyovych Radievsky ("Mauser")" Ukraine Memory Book] (in Russian). 3 March 2022.
12. 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.
13. "Isa Munayev's War - The Final Days Of A Chechen Commander Fighting In Ukraine". The Intercept. 27 February 2015.
14. "Maxim Mykhailovych Shapoval". Ukraine Memory Book (in Ukrainian). 26 May 2023.
15. "Вибух в центрі Києва забрав життя командира спецпідрозділу Головного управління розвідки". Mil.in.ua. 27 June 2017.
16. "У десантно-штурмових військах ЗСУ з'явився новий бригадний генерал". 22 November 2021.
17. "Kotenko Artem Pavlovich". Zhytomyr City Council (in Ukrainian). 4 November 2024.
18. "Появились сообщения о гибели бригадного генерала ВСУ Артема Котенко". www.mk.ru. 9 November 2022. Retrieved Apr 2, 2023.
19. "Zhytomyr City Council". Zhytomyr City Council (in Ukrainian). 4 November 2024.