List of Deceased Journalists
Yevhen Starynets
Killed in action near Popasna, Luhansk oblast, on April 30, 2022.
Former Suspilne Cherkasy manager
Oleksandr Makhov
Donbas war veteran, UAF serviceman, killed in action in Dovhenke, Kharkiv oblast, on May 4, 2022.
Journalist with the TV channels Ukraina, Ukraina 24, and Dom
Denys Kotenko
Killed in action near Kyiv on March 24, 2022.
Ministry of Veterans Affairs press office staff
Serhiy Zayikovskyi
Killed in action near Kyiv on March 24, 2022.
Essayist, historian, translator
Yuriy Oliynyk
Killed in acttion near Popasna, Luhansk oblast, on March 23, 2022.
Cameraman with Channel 24
Oleh Yakunin
Killed in action in Volnovakha district, Donetsk oblast, on March 18, 2022.
Website editor for misto.zp.ua (Zaporizhzhia)
Viktor Dudar
Killed in action near Mykolaiv on March 2, 2022.
War reporter
Serhiy Pushchenko
Killed in Vasylkiv alongside fellow Territorial Defence fighters on March 2, 2022.
Sketch artist and painter, culturologist, journalist, volunteer, ATO veteran
Oleksiy Chernyshev
Went missing on March 13, 2022, found murdered alongside Maksym Levin on April 1, 2022.
Serviceman, photographer. Workerd with UNIAN, Ukrainski Novyny, Censor.Net, Reuters, and AFP before 2022
Tetyana Kulyk
Killed in a Russian overnight drone strike on Kyiv oblast on February 26, 2025, when a drone hit her house in Bucha district.
Ukrinform journalist
Volodymyr Datsenko
Killed by a missile strike on Vinnytsia on July 14, 2022, while off duty.
Journalist with the NGO Road Control Vinnytsia, volunteer, service member
Ihor Hudenko
Body found in Kharkiv on February 27, 2022, biological death confirmed by doctors. According to the doctors’ findings, the death was non-violent.
Photographer, video blogger