Many notable Ukrainians, Russians and other nationals died during the Russo-Ukrainian war since the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, either while serving in the armed forces or as civilian casualties.
Those proven to have died as a result of the war include:
Ukrainian military
2022 On 24 February, Vitalii Skakun, a combat engineer, died during the Kherson offensive, reportedly sacrificing himself to ensure the destruction of a bridge to slow the Russian army's advance. On 25 February, Colonel Oleksandr Oksanchenko deputy commander of flight training of the 831st Tactical Aviation Brigade, and display pilot on international airshows, died in the Battle of Kyiv. On 25 February, Iryna Tsvila, a Svoboda activist and soldier, was killed in Kyiv, along with her soldier husband. On 26 February, Inna Derusova, a military medic and nurse, was killed by enemy fire while taking care of wounded fellow soldiers in Okhtyrka, Sumy Oblast. On 1 March, Oleksandr Kulyk, an Olympic cycling coach, was killed in battle near Nyzy in Sumy Oblast. On 2 March, Captain Oleksandr Korpan was killed in Starokostiantyniv, Khmelnytskyi Oblast.
On 4 March, Valeriy Chybineyev, a sniper, was killed at the Battle of Antonov Airport. On 6 March, Pavlo Lee, an actor and member of the Territorial Defense Forces, was killed during the Kyiv offensive. On 7 March, Oleksandr Marchenko, a former member of the Verkhovna Rada and member of the Territorial Defense Forces was killed in a battle near Kyiv. On 8 March, Sergeant Kateryna Stupnytska from the 3rd Mechanised Battalion was killed in Kyiv. She was awarded with the Hero of Ukraine and the "Golden Star" Order. On 9 March, Colonel Serhiy Kotenko, Commander of the 9th Separate Motorized Infantry Battalion "Vinnytsia Scythians" was killed in battle near Zaporizhzhia. On 11 March, Major Oleh Chornomorets, a Naval officer, was killed. On 12 March, Colonel Dmytro Apukhtin, Deputy Commander of the 23rd Public Security Protection Brigade was killed near Mariupol during an attack by an enemy column. On 12 March, Colonel Valeriy Hudz, Commander of the 24th Mechanized Brigade was killed in Luhansk. On 13 March, Major Stepan Tarabalka, an Air Force pilot, was shot down and killed while fighting Russian forces. Tarabalka was hinted by Western media to be the Ghost of Kyiv. On 13 March, Aliaksiej Skoblia, a Belarusian volunteer and member of the Ukrainian Special Operations Forces and deputy Commander of the Kastuś Kalinoŭski Battalion was killed in an ambush in the outskirts of Kyiv. On 14 March, Mykola Kravchenko, a public and political figure, chief ideologue of Azov Battalion and the organization Patriot of Ukraine, was killed during the Battle of Kyiv. On 17 March, Col. Brigade Commander of the 25th Airborne Brigade was reported killed in combat in Donetsk Oblast. On 25 March, Senior lieutenant Maksym Kagal was killed during the Siege of Mariupol. He was a kickboxing athlete and world champion in the national team of Ukraine and was posthumously awarded as Hero of Ukraine. On 30 March, Col. , Brigade Commander of the 7th Tactical Aviation Brigade was killed while flying his Su-24 jetbomber during a combat mission. On 1 April, Yuriy Ruf, a poet, was killed while fighting Russian forces in Luhansk. On 7 April, Oleksii Yanin, former world kick-boxing champion, was killed in battle in Mariupol. On 20 April, Ivan Bidnyak, a silver medalist at the European Shooting Championships, was killed in action in Kherson Oblast. On 4 May, military journalist Oleksandr Makhov, died during the defense of the village of Dovhenke in Kharkiv Oblast.Д. Гришина. Вулиця Махова: у Києві наречена полеглого воїна повісила табличку на вулиці, що назвали на його честь // Вечірній Київ. — 2022. — 20 листопада. On 7 May, Colonel Ihor Bedzai, Commander of the 10th Naval Aviation Brigade, and deputy commander of the Ukrainian Navy, was killed by a missile from a Russian fighter jet while performing a combat mission in Odesa Oblast. On 28 May, Vitaly Derekh journalist, public activist and soldier was killed during the Battle of Bakhmut.
On 5 June, Lt. Col Dmytro Fisher former Commander of the 831st Tactical Aviation Brigade was killed in Orikhiv, Zaporizhzhia Oblast when his Su-27 was shot down. On 9 June, Roman Ratushnyi, a Euromaidan activist and soldier, died during a battle near Izium.
On 10 June, Oleksii Chubashev, acting head of the Central Television and Radio Studio of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, was killed. On 19 June, Oleh Kutsyn, former Deputy Head of Tiachiv, died during battle in Izium. He was the head of the "Legion of Freedom" of the Svoboda party as well as Commander of company Karpatska Sich of the 93rd Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. On 26 June, the commander of the 40th Tactical Aviation Brigade, Colonel Mykhailo Matiushenko and Major Yurii Krasylnikov, were killed when their Su-24 was shot down by a Russian anti-aircraft missile over Snake Island in the Black Sea.У Болгарії ідентифікували знайдене в морі тіло льотчика, який захищав ОдесуНаступ на Київ, звільнення о. Зміїний, Херсонщина. Євген Булацик, полковник Повітряних сил ЗСУ |УХМАН On 12 July, Captain , Chief of Staff of a battalion of the 72nd Mechanized Brigade was killed in Toretsk. On 23 July, Colonel Vitaliy Hulyayev, Commander of the 28th Separate Mechanized Brigade was killed in Mykolaiv by an airstrike. On 26 July, Major Oleksandr Kukurba, chief of Intelligence at the HQ of the 299th Tactical Aviation Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. On 2 August, Colonel , Brigade Commander of the 66th Mechanized Brigade was killed in combat in Marinka. On 7 August, Major Anton Lystopad pilot and son of Major General Valentyn Lystopad Deputy Commander of the Ukrainian Air force, was killed during a mission.У Франківську попрощалися із загиблими пілотами Юрієм Погорілим та Антоном Листопадом On 1 September, , an Israeli-Ukrainian veteran of the 2006 Lebanon War, football coach, and Ukrainian Territorial Defense soldier was killed in Bakhmut. On 7 September, , a former football player for Dynamo Kyiv and the Ukrainian national football team, was killed by Russian artillery shelling near Bakhmut.Російські окупанти вбили знаменитого ексфутболіста київського «Динамо» та збірної України
On 12 September, Oleksandr Shapoval, a ballet dancer and choreographer at the National Opera of Ukraine was killed in a battle near Donetsk. On 27 September, , a political scientist and Crimean Tatar historian, died fighting against Russian troops in Kherson Oblast. On 28 September, Lieutenant Colonel Ihor Bezohlyuk, founder of the died in Kharkiv when his vehicle was hit by a mine. On 2 November, Tseng Sheng-guang, a Taiwanese volunteer, was killed in battle near Kremina Luhansk Oblast. On 3 November, Brigadier-General , deputy commander of the Ukrainian Air Assault Forces, who had commanded the 46th and the 81st Airmobile Brigade and Colonel Volodymyr Oleksiyovych Levchuk, former Deputy Minister of Veteran's Affairs were killed by wounds received in Zhytomyr Oblast when their vehicle was hit by a mine. Kotenko was the first Ukrainian General to be reportedly killed in the war. On 11 November, , a three-time national champion as part of Shakhtar Donetsk and player of the Ukrainian men's national handball team, was killed after being blown up by a mine in Bakhmut. On 13 November, Vadym Khlupianets, a ballet dancer at the Kyiv National Academic Theatre of Operetta and a soldier was killed by a sniper near Bakhmut.
On 16 November, Serhii Mironov, a writer, historian and officer of the Territorial Defense of Ukraine was killed in Bakhmut. On 24 November, Captain Valerii Hliebov was killed in Soledar. On 20 December, Oleh Bobalo, a film director and soldier, was killed in Bakhmut. On 21 December, , a journalist, public figure, and military officer was killed in Bakhmut. On 28 December, Yezhov Volodymyr Anatoliyovych, developer of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky and Cossacks video game series, was reported killed in Bakhmut. On 31 December, Yevhen Hulevych philosopher and cultural historian, was killed during the battle of Bakhmut.
2023 On 8 January, Colonel , Chief of the Special Forces of the Ukrainian State Border Service, was killed in Soledar. On 15 January, Grygorii Tsekhmistrenko, a Canadian volunteer medic of Ukrainian origin, Euromaidan participant and member of the International Legion, was killed in Bakhmut.Міліція затримала 60 активістів Євромайдану (повний список) // Факти. — 19 February 2014. On 15 January, , an athlete, was killed in Bakhmut. On 23 January, , a figure skater, was killed in Bakhmut. On 26 January, Eduard Lobau (Lobov), a Belarusian activist and volunteer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was killed in Vuhledar. On 2 February, Andrii Fylypchuk, an archeologist, was killed. On 5 February, Ukrainian soldier Bogdan Borodai son of the Member of the Buchanski Civilian Council that denounced the killings of Bucha, was killed in Bakhmut. On 6 March, Major , battalion commander in the 80th Air Assault Brigade and a veteran of the 2014 war, was killed by a Russian airstrike in Chasiv Yar. On 7 March, Dmytro Kotsiubailo, leader of the Right Sector paramilitary group, commander of the 1st Mechanized Battalion and 2021 recipient of the Hero of Ukraine, was killed in Bakhmut. On 28 March, , pilot and First Deputy Commander of a Squadron of the 831st Tactical Aviation Brigade, was killed when his Su-27 fighter aircraft was hit in the air by a Russian Shahed 136 (Geran-2) drone.Decree of the President of Ukraine from 2 серпня 2022 year № 551/2022 «Про відзначення державними нагородами України» On 31 March, Vitaly Merinov, four-time world champion in kickboxing, died during the battle of Bakhmut.
On 1 April, , nicknamed "Mujahid", a Belarusian former leader of the Tornado Battalion, who had been imprisoned in Ukraine from 2017 to 2021 on counts of rape and torture of POWs in the first Donbas war, was killed in Bakhmut. On 17 April, Valerii Dorokhov, an entrepeneur, was killed. On 18 April, Oleh Barna, a former member of the Verkhovna Rada, was killed in Vuhledar. On 19 April, Finbar Cafferkey, an Irish political activist and volunteer, was killed in Bakhmut. On 19 April, Dmitry Petrov, a Russian anarchist activist and volunteer, was killed in Bakhmut. On 21 May, Yulian Matviychuk, a deputy of the Poltava City Council from the political party Svoboda, died in a hospital in Dnipro as a result of a severe wound received at the front. On 22 May, Yevheniy Osiyevsky, an anthropologist, journalist and rifle medic for the 77th Airmobile Brigade, was killed in Bakhmut. On 2 June, fighter pilot Vladyslav Savieliev, call sign "Nomad", died during a combat mission on Pokrovsk, Donetsk Oblast. He was a MiG-29 pilot who participated in a US-sponsored training program at Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi. On 13 June, Roman Chornomaz, sniper and member of the Svoboda political party, was killed in Kurdiumivka. On 22 July, , Commander of the 47th Mechanized Brigade, was killed in combat in direction of Melitopol. He was also a well known journalist and Economic commentator. On 31 July, Yuliia Shevchenko, Lieutenant of the 47th Mechanized Brigade and activist, was killed in Orihiv. On 4 August, Serhii Slabenko, a former member of the Verkhovna Rada, died during the 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive in Zaporizhzhia Oblast. On 11 August, Major Tsyb Yuri, chief of staff and deputy Commander of the Separate Presidential Brigade, died in Kupiansk, Kharkiv Oblast. On 22 August, Colonel Serhii Ilnytskyi, deputy of the Kyiv City Council and deputy commander of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army and Commander of a detachment of the 28th Mechanized Brigade died in Kurdyumivka, Bakhmut. On 25 August, Lieutenant Colonel Yuri Pushkin, Commander of the Separate 55th Communications Brigade, was killed in Lyman, Donetsk Oblast.