List of Deceased Journalists
Yuriy Kirpik
Reported dead on March 13, 2025.
Project producer at Starlight Media (Weighed and Happy, etc)
Yaroslav Shapochka
Went missing in action in Donetsk oblast in March 2023. Reported dead on February 10, 2025. Killed in action near Bakhmut, Donetsk oblast, on March 20 or 21, 2023.
Formerly a journalist with Fakty
Ruslan Hanushchak
Killed in action near Sudzha (Kursk region, Russia) on January 11, 2025.
Military photographer, cameraman from Ivano-Frankivsk
Anton Vovk
Killed in action on December 28, 2024.
Music editor for Starlight Media's MasterChef before the full-scale invasion.
Oleh Sarelo
Reported dead on December 9, 2024.
Video editor for the project Realna Istoria
Andriy Buchak
Went missing near Vodyane, Donetsk oblast, on August 13, 2024; reported dead by his wife Olena on November 24, 2024.
Formerly a journalist from Luhansk; worked with the newspaper Kuryer
Oleksiy Andreyev
Went missing in Donetsk oblast on November 29, 2023; reported dead on November 2, 2024.
Cameraman with the Mariupol TV channels TB7 and Sigma; Azovstal plant press officer
Stanislav Zhytnytskyi
Killed in action in September 2024.
Line producer at STB, Novyi Kanal
Ihor Zakharov
Went missing near Sriblyanske Forestry or Yampil, on the border between Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts, on August 1, 2023. Reported dead in September 2024.
Formerly a cameraman with Ukraina TV, 1+1
Pavlo Parkhomenko
Killed in action near Kreminna, Luhansk oblast, on September 5, 2024.
Videographer with Priamyi TV
Bohdan Zatula
Killed in a Russian mass strike in Dnipropetrovsk oblast on August 26, 2024.
Kharkiv corrspondent with Novyny.LIVE
Oleksiy Sapuha
Killed in action in Donetsk oblast on July 30, 2024.
Bird photographer