List of Deceased Journalists
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
Oksana Haydar (Ruda Pani)
Killed in a Russian artillery strike on Shevchenkove village (Brovary district, Kyiv oblast), on March 15, 2022.
Journalist, blogger
Natalia Kharakoz
Head of literature club Azovye, died in the basement of her house in Mariupol on March 29, 2022, during the Russian blockade of the city.
Journalist, author, member of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine
Vira Hyrych
Killed in a Russian shelling strike on Kyiv on April 28, 2022.
Producer for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Zoreslav Zamoiskyi
Body with signs of violent death was found in Bucha on April 13, 2022.
Journalist with online news outlets Informatsiynyi Portal and Hromada Pryirpinnya
Roman Nezhyborets
Killed by Russian troops in Yahidna village near Chernihiv between March 5 and 8, 2022.
Video engineer with Chernihiv-based TV channel Dytynets
Yevhen Bal
Tortured to death by Russian troops in Mariupol on April 2, 2022.
Journalist, author, volunteer
Lilia Humyanova
Killed in a Russian shelling strike on Mariupol on March 19, 2022.
Journalism tutor, head of the art department of Livoberezhny District House of Children's and Youth Creativity
Viktor Dedov
Killed in a shelling strike on Mariupol on March 11, 2022.
Cameraman for Sigma TV