List of deaths during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
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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.
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, Iryna 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 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 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.[12]
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.[14]
On 25 March, Senior lieutenantMaksym 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.[20][21]
Chief ideologue and founder of Azov Battalion Mykola Kravchenko
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.[34][35]
On 7 August, Major Anton Lystopad pilot and son of Major General Valentyn Lystopad Deputy Commander of the Ukrainian Air force, was killed during a mission.[43][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.[48]
On 2 November, Tseng Sheng-guang, a Taiwanese volunteer, was killed in battle near Kremina Luhansk Oblast.[50]
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[51] and Colonel Volodymyr Oleksiyovych Levchuk, former Deputy Minister of Veteran's Affairs[52][53] 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.[54][55]
On 22 February, a British military public figure and author of military books, James Gerard Richard Shortt[75] was killed fighting for the International Legion in Ukraine.[76]
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.[79]
On 31 March, Vitaly Merinov, four-time world champion in kickboxing, died during the battle of Bakhmut.[81]
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,[82] was killed in Bakhmut.[83]
On 18 April, Oleh Barna, a former member of the Verkhovna Rada, was killed in Vuhledar.[84]
On 19 April, Finbar Cafferkey, an Irish political activist and volunteer, was killed in Bakhmut.[85]
On 19 April, Dmitry Petrov, a Russian anarchist activist and volunteer, was killed in Bakhmut.[86]
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.[87]
On 22 July, Dimytro Rybakov[uk] 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.[92]
On 31 July, Yuliia Shevchenko Lieutenant of the 47th Mechanized Brigade and activist was killed in Orihiv.[93]
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.[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.[103]
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.[105]
On 31 January, Oleksandr Bilokon[uk], who was the European and World Champion in powerlifting, as well as a winner of "The Strongest Man of Ukraine", was killed in battle.[109][110][111]
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.[112]
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.[117]
On 16 June, Major Oleksandr Egorov, the Deputy Commander of the 117th Mechanized Brigade was killed in Zaporothzya oblast.[123]
On 24 July, the former mayor of Uman (2015–2020), Oleksandr Tsebrii[uk] was killed in the combat zone. Tsebrii was serving in the 58th Motorized Brigade.[124]
On 2 August, Lt. Col Oleg Pigulevskyi, commander of the 28th Separate Rifle Batallion was killed near Provosk.[125]
On 20 April, Andriy Dziuban, coach and Master in Thai boxing martial art and weightlifting was killed while fighting for the 82nd Separate Airborne Assault Brigade in Sudzhansky, Kursk Oblast.[147]
On 12 May, Senior Lt. Maksym Nelipa[uk], Ukrainian actor and TV presenter turned soldier was killed in the front.[148]
On 6 June, Col. Oleg Nomerovsky, military officer of the TCR of Odessa was killed in a car bomb attack.[149]
On 8 June, Vladyslav Gorai, Ukrainian Opera tenor and soldier was killed in Sumy oblast.[150]
On 12 June, Ukrainian National team of water polo member and HUR member, Rodion "Gene" Pustovoi was killed in Sumy.[151]
On 15 June, Yurii Felipenko, TV actor and celebrity turned soldier was killed in the Prokovsk front.[152][153]
On 22 June, Lt Col. Vano Nadiradze, Georgian Voluntier and head of Special Operations Forces was reported dead by a heart attack.[154]
On 1 July, a Russian missile strike likely a Iskander-M missile killed multiple people in Huliapole (village)[uk], Dnipro Oblast including:[155]
On 10 July, a SBU senior intelligence officer, Col. Ivan Voronych, veteran since the 2014 War in Donbas, was shot and killed at daylight in Kyiv by an unidentified assailant.[157]
On 19 July, Ukrainian Army Col. Konstantin Oborin[uk], aviator and President of Odessa Aviation Club was killed during a combat mission.[158]
On 10 August, Bogdan Koltsov member of the DeepStateMap.Live team that monitor the territorial control of the war was killed in Novopavlovka.[161]
On 30 August, Yuri Chikatilo son of Andrei Chikatilo, a famous serial killer in the Soviet Union, was killed while fighting for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.[162]
On 31 March, Oleksiy Tsybko, a rugby union player, was killed by Russian forces.[171]
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.[172]
On 6 April, Kateryna Diachenko, an 10-year old rhythmic gymnast, and her father, was killed during the Siege of Mariupol.[173][174]
On 28 April, Vira Hyrych, a journalist, was killed by Russian shelling in Kyiv.[175]
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.[176][177]
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.[180]
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.[197]
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.[202]
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.[203]
On 11 July, Lieutenant general Oleg Tsokov was killed by a missile strike during the Ukrainian counteroffensive.[205]
2025
On 9 March, Alexander Petlinsky, a 18-years old student at Chelyabinsk Medical College was killed. The first known death of a Russian soldier born in 2007.[206]
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.[213]
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.[216]
On 6 December 2023, Illia Kyva, a former member of the Verkhovna Rada, was shot dead in Moscow, Russia.[217]
On 21 May 2025, Andriy Portnov, a former member of the Verkhovna Rada, was shot dead in Madrid, Spain.[218]
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