List of Deceased Journalists
Vyacheslav Kobrzhytskyi
Reported dead on May 1, 2025.
Motor racing commentator with Setanta Sports, Formula 1 commentator before being drafted
Volodymyr Kotsur
Reported dead on April 29, 2025; last in contact on April 5, when he headed out for a combat mission in Donetsk oblast.
Sports journalist with Sport Express Ukraine, Ukrayinskyi Futbol, Komanda
Dmytro Bendikov
Killed in action in Ukraine's East on March 18, 2025.
Website editor at TSN
Kyrylo Polikevych
Killed in action near Preobrazhenka (Pokrovsk district, Donetsk oblast) on March 16, 2025.
Videographer with Suspilne Dnipro
Arthur Shybalov
Killed in action in Russia's Kursk region on March 13, 2025.
Cameraman, video editor with PTV UA
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