on 7 March 2022
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. • 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. • On 25 February,
Iryna Tsvila, a
Svoboda activist and soldier, was killed in Kyiv, along with her soldier husband. • 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. • On 1 March,
Oleksandr Kulyk, an Olympic cycling coach, was killed in battle near
Nyzy in
Sumy Oblast. • On 2 March, Captain
Oleksandr Korpan was killed in
Starokostiantyniv,
Khmelnytskyi Oblast. • On 4 March,
Valeriy Chybineyev, a sniper, was killed at the
Battle of Antonov Airport. • On 6 March,
Pavlo Lee, an actor and member of the
Territorial Defense Forces, was killed during the
Kyiv offensive. • 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. • 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. • On 9 March, Colonel
Serhiy Kotenko, Commander of the 9th Separate Motorized Infantry Battalion "Vinnytsia Scythians" was killed in battle near
Zaporizhzhia. • 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. • On 12 March, Colonel
Valeriy Hudz, Commander of the
24th Mechanized Brigade was killed in
Luhansk. • 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. • 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. • On 14 March,
Mykola Kravchenko, a public and political figure, chief ideologue of
Azov Battalion and the organization
Patriot of Ukraine, was killed during the Battle of Kyiv. • On 17 March, Col. Brigade Commander of the
25th Airborne Brigade was reported killed in combat in Donetsk Oblast. • 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. • On 30 March, Col. , Brigade Commander of the
7th Tactical Aviation Brigade was killed while flying his
Su-24 jetbomber during a combat mission. • On 1 April,
Yuriy Ruf, a poet, was killed while fighting Russian forces in
Luhansk. • On 7 April,
Oleksii Yanin, former world kick-boxing champion, was killed in battle in Mariupol. • On 20 April,
Ivan Bidnyak, a silver medalist at the
European Shooting Championships, was killed in action in
Kherson Oblast. • On 4 May, military journalist
Oleksandr Makhov, died during the defense of the village of
Dovhenke in Kharkiv Oblast. • On 7 May, Colonel
Ihor Bedzai, Commander of the
10th Naval Aviation Brigade, 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. • On 28 May,
Vitaly Derekh journalist, public activist and soldier was killed during the
Battle of Bakhmut. • On 5 June, Lt. Col
Dmytro Fisher former Commander of the
831st Tactical Aviation Brigade was killed in
Orikhiv,
Zaporizhzhia Oblast when his
Su-27 was shot down. • On 9 June,
Roman Ratushnyi, a
Euromaidan activist and soldier, died during a battle near
Izium. • 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. • 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. • On 12 July, Captain , Chief of Staff of a battalion of the
72nd Mechanized Brigade was killed in Toretsk. • On 23 July, Colonel
Vitaliy Hulyayev, Commander of the
28th Separate Mechanized Brigade was killed in
Mykolaiv by an airstrike. • On 26 July, Major
Oleksandr Kukurba, chief of Intelligence at the HQ of the
299th Tactical Aviation Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. • On 2 August, Col. , Brigade Commander of the
66th Mechanized Brigade was killed in combat in
Marinka. • 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. • On 1 September, , an
Israeli-Ukrainian veteran of the
2006 Lebanon War, football coach, and Ukrainian Territorial Defense soldier was killed in Bakhmut. • On 7 September, , 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. • On 12 September,
Oleksandr Shapoval, a ballet dancer and choreographer at the
National Opera of Ukraine was killed in a battle near
Donetsk. • On 27 September, , a political scientist and
Crimean Tatar historian and public figure, died fighting against Russian troops in Kherson Oblast. • On 28 September, Lieutenant Colonel
Ihor Bezohlyuk, founder of the died in Kharkiv when his vehicle was hit by a mine. • On 2 November,
Tseng Sheng-guang, a Taiwanese volunteer, was killed in battle near Kremina Luhansk Oblast. • On 3 November, Brigadier-General , deputy commander of the
Ukrainian Air Assault Forces, who had commanded the
46th and the
81st Airmobile Brigade and Colonel Volodymyr Oleksiyovych Levchuk, former Deputy Minister of Veteran's Affairs 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. • On 11 November, , 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. • 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. • On 16 November, Serhii Mironov, a writer, historian and officer of the Territorial Defense of Ukraine was killed in Bakhmut. • On 24 November, Captain
Valerii Hliebov, pseudonym "Achilles",
Hero of Ukraine, veteran of the 2014–15 war and the
Battle of Izium, was killed in
Soledar. • On 20 December,
Oleh Bobalo, a
film director and soldier, was killed in Bakhmut. • On 21 December, , a journalist, public figure, and military officer was killed in Bakhmut. • 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. • On 31 December,
Yevhen Hulevych philosopher, philologist, cultural historian and soldier was killed during the battle of Bakhmut.
2023 • On 8 January, Colonel Chief of the Special Forces of the Ukrainian State Border Service was killed in Soledar. • On 15 January,
Grygorii Tsekhmistrenko, a Canadian volunteer medic of Ukrainian origin, Euromaidan participant and member of the
International Legion was killed in Bakhmut. • On 15 January, , an athlete, was killed in Bakhmut. • On 23 January, , a
figure skater, drafted into the Armed Forces of Ukraine, was killed in Bakhmut. • On 26 January,
Eduard Lobau (Lobov), a
Belarusian activist and volunteer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was killed in
Vuhledar. • On 22 February, a British military public figure and author of military books, James Gerard Richard Shortt was killed fighting for the International Legion in Ukraine. • On 6 March, Major , battalion commander in the
80th Air Assault Brigade and a veteran of the 2014 war, was killed by a Russian airstrike in
Chasiv Yar. • 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. • On 28 March, , pilot and First Deputy Commander of a Squadron of the
831st Tactical Aviation Brigade, was killed when his Su-27 fighter aircraft was hit in the air by a Russian
Shahed 136 (Geran-2) drone. • On 31 March,
Vitaly Merinov, four-time world champion in kickboxing, died during the battle of Bakhmut. • On 1 April, , 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, was killed in Bakhmut. • On 18 April,
Oleh Barna, a former member of the Verkhovna Rada, was killed in Vuhledar. • On 19 April,
Finbar Cafferkey, an Irish political activist and volunteer, was killed in Bakhmut. • On 19 April,
Dmitry Petrov, a Russian anarchist activist and volunteer, was killed in Bakhmut. • 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. • On 22 May,
Yevheniy Osiyevsky, an anthropologist, journalist and rifle medic for the
77th Airmobile Brigade, was killed in Bakhmut. • 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. • 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. • On 22 July, 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. • On 31 July,
Yuliia Shevchenko Lieutenant of the 47th Mechanized Brigade and activist was killed in Orihiv. • On 4 August,
Serhii Slabenko, an ex-member of the Verkhovna Rada and soldier died during the
2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive in Zaporizhzhia Oblast. • On 11 August, Major Tsyb Yuri, chief of staff and deputy Commander of the
Separate Presidential Brigade died in
Kupiansk, Kharkiv Oblast. • 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. • On 25 August, the Commander of the
Separate 55th Communications Brigade Lt. Col Yuri Pushkin was killed in
Lyman, Donetsk Oblast. • On 25 August, pilots from
40th Tactical Aviation Brigade; Major
Andrii Pilshchykov (call sign Juice),
Viacheslav Minka and
Serhii Prokazin, deputy Commander, died in a flight training accident near ,
Zhytomyr Oblast. • On 9 October, Lt Col
Vitaly Baranov, Commander of the 204th Battalion of the
241st Territorial Brigade was killed in Donetsk. • 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. • On 3 November, Lt. Col Andriy Tarasenko deputy commander of the
128th Mountain Assault Brigade was killed in a
Russian attack on Zarichne barracks • 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. • On 30 November,
Oleksandr Kalynychenko Soviet and Ukrainian sprint canoer, silver medalist in
1986 Montreal was killed during a mission.
2024 • On 7 January,
Maksym Kryvtsov, Ukrainian poet and military volunteer, was killed in battle in Kharkiv Oblast. • On 28 January, Ruslan Pomirchiy, a Deputy of the
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Council, for the
Svoboda party, was killed in Kupyansk. • On 31 January, , who was the European and World Champion in
powerlifting, as well as a winner of "The Strongest Man of Ukraine", was killed in battle. • 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. ,
Serhii Konoval • On 15 March Russian an Iskander-M missile strike killed 19 people in Odessa, including: • , Commander of the of the
Liut Brigade, and former Head of Patrol of the National Police of Odesa • Dmitry Abramenko, the Deputy Chief of the National Police of Odessa • Serhii Tetyukhin, former
Deputy Mayor of Odessa • 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. • On 29 March,
Iryna Tsybukh, Ukrainian public figure, manager of the Department of Regional
Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine and paramedic of
Hospitallers Medical Battalion was killed in the front. • On 6 April Jr. Lt
Serhii Konoval commander of 2nd Infantry Company of
67th Mechanized Brigade died during the
Battle of Chasiv Yar. • On 17 May, Lt. Col
Denys Vasyliuk, pilot and First Deputy Commander of the Aviation Squadron of the
831st Tactical Aviation Brigade was shot down by an enemy missile during a combat mission on his Su-27P. • On 10 June, founder of the OUN Volunteer Battalion of the
Ukrainian Right Sector was killed in combat in Kharkiv. • On 16 June, Major Oleksandr Egorov, the Deputy Commander of the
117th Mechanized Brigade was killed in Zaporothzya oblast. • On 24 July, the former mayor of
Uman (2015–2020), was killed in the combat zone. Tsebrii was serving in the 58th Motorized Brigade. • On 2 August, Lt. Col Oleg Pigulevskyi, commander of the 28th Separate Rifle Battalion was killed near Provosk. • On 26 August, during a
Russian missile attacks, were killed: •
Oleksii Mes callname
Moonfish, a US trained pilot while on his F-16 repelling Russian missile attacks. •
Serhiy Serhiychuk a politician and statesman, governor of
Cherkasy Oblast. • On 29 August, Ukrainian worldchampion kickboxer was killed during its service at the
8th Special Purpose Regiment. • On 1 September, Col. , Brigade Commander of the
160th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade was killed in the Kharkiv region. • On 18 September, , Commander of the
73rd Special Forces Center was killed in Kursk operation. • On 20 September, a Russian missile strike in Dobropillia, Donetsk killed the following servicemen: • Col. Oleksandr Nykytyuk advisor to former Commander in Chieff Valerii Zaluzhnyi. • Lt. Col Vasyl Lapchuk deputy commander of the
14th Mechanized Brigade. • On 21 September, Ukrainian athlete and female Weightlifting Championship, Nina Pashkevich died in battle. • On 5 October,
Ildar Dadin a Russian political activist turned
International Foreign Fighter from the
Sibir Battalion was killed in Kharkiv. • On 24 October, Col. Sergeii Lipsy the Commander of the
57th Motorized Brigade was killed in combat. • On 17 November,
Dmytro Maslovskyi soldier from elite
71st Jaeger Brigade was killed during a close quarters knife duel near Trudove with a Russian soldier while it was recorded by his
body camera. • On 10 December, actor and soldier of Territorial Defense forces was killed in combat.
2025 • On 30 January, Battalion Commander of the
79th Air Assault Brigade was killed while deployed in the Prokovsk front. • On 5 February,
Maksym Yemets Ukrainian poet, soldier and veteran of the War in Donbas was killed in Pokrovsk. • On 5 March, Volodymir Stogniy, Battalion Commander of the
37th Marine Brigade was killed in battle. • On 13 April, Bohdan Lysenko, journalist during the
War in Donbas and later officer in the Ukrainian Army, was killed by enemy fire. • On 13 April, Colonel , Brigade Commander of the
27th Rocket Artillery Brigade was killed in a
missile attack on Sumy. • 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. • On 12 May, Senior Lt. , Ukrainian actor and TV presenter turned soldier was killed in the front. • On 6 June, Col. Oleg Nomerovsky, military officer of the
TCR of Odessa was killed in a car bomb attack. • On 8 June,
Vladyslav Gorai, Ukrainian Opera tenor and soldier was killed in Sumy oblast. • On 12 June, Ukrainian National team of water polo member and HUR member, Rodion "Gene" Pustovoi was killed in Sumy. • On 15 June,
Yurii Felipenko, TV actor and celebrity turned soldier was killed in the Prokovsk front. • On 22 June, Lt Col. Vano Nadiradze, Georgian Voluntier and head of Special Operations Forces was reported dead by a heart attack. • On 1 July, a Russian missile strike, likely an Iskander-M missile, killed multiple people in , Dnipro Oblast including: • Col. Brigade Commander of the
110th Mechanized Brigade • Dmitry Romaniuk, Deputy Commander of the
110th Mechanized Brigade • Lt. Col Valery Mirzayev, Chief of Staff of the
110th Mechanized Brigade • 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. • On 19 July, Ukrainian Army Col. , aviator and President of Odessa Aviation Club was killed during a combat mission. • On 22 July, Col. Commander of the
Liut Brigade was killed in a road accident in Donetsk. • On 10 August,
David Chichkan artist and anarco-activist was killed by Russian fire in the
Zaporizhzhia Oblast. • On 10 August, Bogdan Koltsov member of the
DeepStateMap.Live team that monitor the territorial control of the war was killed in Novopavlovka. • On 30 August, Yuri Chikatilo, son of
Andrei Chikatilo, an infamous serial killer in the Soviet Union, was killed while fighting for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. • On 10 September, Denis Furtas, sportsman and World Champion in
Savate Kickboxing was killed in the Kupyansk front.
2026 • On 15 February, Dmytro Rusetzkyi, Kickboxing champion was killed while fighting in Sumy Oblast. • On 26 February, , journalist and political figure was reported killed. • On 9 March, Col.
Oleksandr Dovhach, Brigade Commamder of the
39th TABwas shot down amd killed during a combat mission while flying on his Su-27. == Ukrainian civilians and journalists ==