Donetsk oblast
Yaroslav Levytskyi
Considered missing in action since October 2024. Confirmed dead on 9 September 2025. Assigned to an army unit fighting near Pokrovsk (Donetsk oblast) in late October 2024; went missing days after the assignment.
Cameraman with Channel 5 and the media agency ACC turned serviceman
Bohdan Zayats
Killed in action in Donetsk oblast on January 30, 2025; the search for his body and confirmation of his identity lasted several months.
News anchor at the communal TV channel Novyi Chernihiv starting 2016
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
Kyrylo Polikevych
Killed in action near Preobrazhenka (Pokrovsk district, Donetsk oblast) on March 16, 2025.
Videographer with Suspilne Dnipro
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
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
Oleksiy Sapuha
Killed in action in Donetsk oblast on July 30, 2024.
Bird photographer
Volodymyr Chernyshov
Killed in action near Novoselivka Persha, Donetsk oblast, on August 6, 2024.
Formerly a cameraman with Kropyvnytskyi-based media outlet CBN