List of Deceased Journalists
Kostyantyn Kits
Killed in action near Yakovlivka, Donetsk oblast, on May 17, 2022.
Cameraman with Avers TV (Lutsk)
Maksym Medynskyi
UAF serviceman, killed in an artillery strike near Kharkiv on April 29, 2022.
Communications officer, journalist
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