List of Deceased Journalists
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
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