List of journalists killed during the Russo-Ukrainian War
As of 16 May 2023[update], at least 17 civilian journalists and media workers have been killed in the line of duty since the Russo-Ukrainian War began in 2014. Six have been Russian, four Ukrainian, one Italian, one American, one Lithuanian, one Irish and two French.
An initial wave of journalist fatalities occurred in the early stages of the
A second wave of deaths began with the full-scale
In addition, at least six Ukrainian journalists have been killed outside the line of duty or under ambiguous circumstances and at least seven journalists have been killed while serving in the
Civilian journalists killed in the line of duty
Eighteen journalists and media workers are listed by the
Name and nationality | Profession | Employer | Date of death | Killed by | Cause of death |
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Andrea Rocchelli | Photojournalist
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Cesura | 24 May 2014 | Armed Forces of Ukraine | Shelling |
Andrei Mironov | Interpreter and fixer | (Freelance) | |||
Igor Kornelyuk
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Correspondent | VGTRK
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17 June 2014 | Armed Forces of Ukraine | Shelling |
Anton Voloshin
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Sound engineer
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Anatoly Klyan
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Camera operator | Channel One
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30 June 2014 | Armed Forces of Ukraine | Shot |
Andrey Stenin
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Photojournalist | Several news agencies | Disappeared 5 August 2014 Body found 3 September 2014 |
Armed Forces of Ukraine | Unclear; body found in burnt-out car |
Serhiy Nikolayev | Photojournalist | Segodnya | 28 February 2015 | Disputed: Armed Forces of Ukraine | Shelling |
Yevhenii Sakun | Photojournalist and correspondent | Live ; EFE | 1 March 2022 | Russian Armed Forces | Airstrike |
Brent Renaud | Documentarian
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(Independent) | 13 March 2022 | Russian Armed Forces | Shot |
Pierre Zakrzewski | Photojournalist | Fox News | 14 March 2022 | Russian Armed Forces | Shot |
Oleksandra Kuvshynova | Fixer | ||||
Oksana Baulina | Correspondent | The Insider | 23 March 2022 | Russian Armed Forces | Rocket strike |
Maks Levin | Photojournalist | LB.ua | Disappeared 13 March 2022 Body found 1 April 2022 |
Russian Armed Forces | Shot |
Mantas Kvedaravičius | Documentarian | (Independent) | 2 April 2022 | Russian Armed Forces | Shot (alleged) |
Roman Zhuk | Photographer | (Independent) | 26 May 2022 | Russian Armed Forces | |
Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff | Camera operator | BFM TV | 30 May 2022 | Russian Armed Forces (alleged) | Shelling |
Bohdan Bitik | Producer | La Repubblica | 26 April 2023 | Russian Armed Forces (alleged) | Shot by Sniper |
Arman Soldin | Reporter, video coordinator | Agence France-Presse | 9 May 2023 | Russian Armed Forces | Rocket attack |
Victoria Amelina | Writer and journalist | (Independent) | 1 July 2023 | Russian Armed Forces | Rocket attack |
Rostislav Zhuravlev | Journalist | RIA Novosti | 22 July 2023 | Armed Forces of Ukraine | Shelling; cluster bombing (alleged by Russia) |
Boris Maksudov | Journalist | Rossiya 24
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23 November 2023 | Armed Forces of Ukraine | Shelling; drone strike (alleged by Russia) |
Gonzalo Lira | Commentator and propagandist | (Independent) | 11 January 2024 | Ukrainian authorities | Illness in Prison |
Andrea Rocchelli and Andrei Mironov
Italian photojournalist
In July 2019, an Italian court convicted
Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin
Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin, correspondent and
Both men were posthumously awarded the Russian Order of Courage by Vladimir Putin.[14]
Anatoly Klyan
Anatoly Klyan, a
Andrey Stenin
Andrey Stenin, a Russian
Stenin's body was found in a burnt-out car alongside
Stenin was posthumously awarded the Order of Courage by Vladimir Putin.[24]
Serhiy Nikolayev
Nikolayev had previously been attacked by the Berkut special police while reporting on the Euromaidan demonstrations in 2013.[26] After his death he was awarded the title Hero of Ukraine by Petro Poroshenko.[28]
Yevhenii Sakun
Yevhenii Sakun [ca],[bio 1] a photojournalist for Ukrainian TV channel Live and correspondent with EFE, was killed by an attack on the Kyiv TV Tower on 1 March 2022,[29][31] in what Reporters Without Borders described as a "precision strike" on the facility.[32]
Brent Renaud
Pierre Zakrzewski and Oleksandra Kuvshynova
Pierre "Zak" Zakrzewski [fr],[bio 2] an Irish photojournalist working for Fox News, and Oleksandra "Sasha" Kuvshynova [uk],[bio 3] a Ukrainian freelancer working with Fox, were killed on 14 March 2022 when their vehicle came under fire in Horenka, Kyiv Oblast.[41][42] British journalist Benjamin Hall, also of Fox, was wounded in the same attack.[43]
Zakrzewski had worked as a freelancer for some years, but had "with mixed feelings" moved to Fox partly because it was too dangerous to work in conflict areas without the support of a media organization.
Kuvshynova had been guiding Fox crews and assisting with newsgathering.[45]
Killings of Oleksandra Kuvshynova and Pierre Zakrzewski[46] were condemned by the Director-General of the UNESCO Audrey Azoulay in a press-release published on 15 March.[47] According to global monitoring on the safety of journalists by the Observatory of Killed Journalists, their killings bring to 7 the number killed in Ukraine in 2022.[48]
Oksana Baulina
Oksana Baulina,[bio 4] a Russian journalist for the independent investigative website The Insider, was killed in the Podilskyi District of Kyiv on 23 March 2022 by Russian shelling. She had been filming the site of a Russian rocket strike on a shopping center. Another civilian was killed in the same attack.[51]
Baulina, once a
Maks Levin
Maks Levin, a Ukrainian photojournalist working for the media outlet LB.ua , went missing on 13 March 2022 and was found dead near the village of Huta-Mezhyhirska in Kyiv Oblast on 1 April 2022. According to the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office, he was fatally shot twice by Russian soldiers while wearing a press jacket.[54] Levin had worked with Reuters, the BBC, and the Associated Press, among other news organizations. Most of his documentary projects were related to the war in Ukraine.[55]
Levin disappeared along with Oleksiy Chernyshov, another Ukrainian journalist, who was found dead on 1 April 2022.[56][57]
A report from Reporters Without Borders concluded that the evidence they were murdered by Russian forces was overwhelming.[58][59]
Mantas Kvedaravičius
Kvedaravičius had earlier worked to document torture and forced disappearances in Russia's North Caucasus region. His 2011 documentary about war-ravaged Chechnya was awarded an Amnesty International prize.[61]
Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff
On 30 May 2022, French President Emmanuel Macron announced the death of French journalist Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff , working for the media BFM TV. He was the victim of a shrapnel wound while following a humanitarian operation in Luhansk Oblast.[63][64] The French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Catherine Colonna, stated that he had died as the result of a Russian action.[65]
Arman Soldin
On 9 May 2023, Arman Soldin and his team were near Chasiv Yar, Donetsk Oblast, together with a detachment of Ukrainian soldiers. Soldin was killed by a rocket which exploded near the place he was lying, nobody else was injured.[66] Soldin was 32.[67][66][68] Soldin worked with Agence France-Presse since 2015, in Rome, then in London, and since 2020 again in Rome. As the Russian invasion started in February 2022, he was immediately sent to Ukraine with the Agence France-Presse team to cover the invasion. He was later rotated, against his wishes,[69] but returned to Ukraine in September 2022, working as a video coordinator.
Boris Maksudov
Maksudov was claimed by Russia to have been targeted along with other journalists and his film crew by a combined Ukrainian artillery and drone attack in Zaporizhzhia Oblast. According to his own unreleased video shots from that day he did not wear neither "PRESS" helmet nor same vest, making him indistinguishable from regular Russian combat troops.[70] He died of his injuries the following day.[71]
Gonzalo Lira
Lira was a Chilean-American war journalist and commentator known for his critical views on the Zelensky and Ukrainian government, and supporting Russia in its invasion of Ukraine.[72] Lira was arrested in May 2023 and charged with "production and dissemination of materials justifying Russia’s armed aggression against Ukraine". He died on 11 January 2024 in a hospital in Kharkiv from illnesses that developed after his arrest. In a letter to his sister he said the prison authorities had intentionally neglected his medical conditions from October 2023 until December 2023.[73]
Civilian journalists killed outside the line of duty or under ambiguous circumstances
At least six Ukrainian journalists or media workers have been killed during the
Dilerbek Shakirov
Venediktova said that Shakirov was a member of the "House of Hope" charitable organization; the IMI said that he had been a part of Kherson's self-defense forces from 2014 to 2015.
Roman Nezhyborets
The committee to Protect Journalists reported on 13 April 2022 that Roman Nezhyborets, a video technician at Dytynets , had been found dead in Yahidne. The director of Dytnets, Tatyana Zdor, said that Russian soldiers had confined Nezhyborets and the other residents of the village to underground shelters and confiscated their cell phones. Zdor said that Nezhyborets had used a hidden cell phone to contact his mother, whom he asked to hide evidence that he worked for Dytnets. According to Zdor, on 5 March, Nezhyborets was caught on the phone with his mother; his family thinks he was killed between then and 9 March.[81]
Viktor Dedov
The National Union of Journalists of Ukraine reported on 23 March 2022, that Viktor Dedov [ca], a camera operator with Sigma , had been killed on 11 March when his apartment building in Mariupol was shelled,[82][83] which his wife, Natalya Dedova, had announced on Facebook on 20 March.[84] The shelling also wounded Dedova and other family members.[85] A subsequent shelling set fire to the building and prevented the family from burying the body.[82][86]
Zoreslav Zamoysky
The
Yevhenii Bal
Yevhenii Bal, a 78-year-old journalist and fiction writer, was taken from his home in
Vira Hyrych
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist and producer Vira Hyrych[bio 5] died as a result of a Russian missile hitting the house where she lived in Kyiv, according to her employer.[91][92] Radio Liberty reported that the missile attack took place on 28 April, but her body was found under the wreckage on the morning of 29 April.[91][93]
Journalists killed while serving in the military
At least six Ukrainians, one Russian[94] and two separatists have been killed while serving as military journalists or while serving as soldiers independent of their work as journalists. They are not included in the committee to Protect Journalists's list.[2][3]
Sergei Korenchenkov and Andrei Vyachalo
Sergei Korenchenkov and Andrei Vyachalo, correspondents with the Donetsk People's Republic militia's Information Corps, disappeared alongside Andrey Stenin on 5 August 2014 (see § Andrey Stenin). Ten days after Stenin's body was found, pro-Russian newspaper Golos Sevastopolya reported the remains of both Korenchenkov and Vyachalo's had been found at the same time as his body.[1] The two were among the first on the scene after militia forces shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, and The Interpreter magazine speculated they may have known which rebels shot down the airliner.[1]
Oleh Zadoyanchuk
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Oleh Zadoyanchuk,
Dmytro Labutkin
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Dmytro Labutkin,[bio 7] a military journalist with the Sevastopol TV channel Breeze prior to Russia's annexation of Crimea, died on 16 February 2015 during the Battle of Debaltseve.[96][97]
Viktor Dudar
Viktor Dudar,[bio 8] the defense correspondent for the Lviv-based newspaper Expres and a volunteer paratrooper, was fatally shot by Russian soldiers while fighting in Mykolaiv. His death was announced on 7 March 2022.[98] He was not working as a journalist at the time;[30] he had re-enlisted in the military on 24 February, having previously served in Donbas from 2014 to 2015. He was among the first Ukrainian soldiers killed in the invasion.[99]
Oleg Yakunin
On 25 March, the Ukrainian Institute of Mass Information reported the death in battle on 18 March of Oleg Yakunin,[bio 9] founder and editor-in-chief of several Ukrainian news sites,[101] based on a Facebook post from his wife.[100][102]
Yury Oleynik
On 26 March 2022,
Oleksandr Makhov
Vitaly Derekh
On 24 February 2022, Vitaly Derekh joined the military again during Russia's invasion of Ukraine. He took part in the combat in March in the Luhansk Oblast operation as well as in the area around Kyiv. He oversaw the destruction of several Russian tanks and other vehicles while leading an anti-tank division. At the age of 34, he was killed in combat on 28 May during the Battle of Bakhmut by an air strike near Popasna.[112][113][114]
Sergey Postnov
On 15 June 2022, Russian media reported that Russian military journalist Colonel Sergey Postnov had died during Russia's "special military operation" in Ukraine.[94]
Oleksandr Bondarenko
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Oleksandr Bondarenko was a Luhansk-born Ukrainian journalist. He worked for BBC News Ukrainian from 2007 to 2011 as a news reporter, presenter and editor of radio programs. He then became a TV reporter, covering the Euromaidan protests and the Russian annexation of Crimea. At the beginning of the war, he worked at Ukrainian communications agency RMA as a communications expert and media trainer. He volunteered in the Territorial Defense Forces in February 2022 and was killed in action in April 2023.[115]
Volodymyr Myroniuk
Volodymyr Myroniuk was an independent Ukrainian-American photographer who previously worked as a truck driver in the United States before going to Ukraine to cover the Revolution of Dignity in 2014. During the war, he joined the military and was also known by his call sign John. His death was announced in September 2023 by Yurii Butusov, editor-in-chief of the media outlet Censor.net.[116]
Biographical notes
- ^ Ukrainian: Євгеній Сакун,[29] also transliterated Evgeny Sakin[30]
- ^ Zakrzewski (/ˈzækʃɛvskiː/ ZAK-shev-skee[37]) was born in August 1966 in Paris to a French mother and Polish father. He was raised in Ireland.[38]
- ^ Kuvshynova (Ukrainian: Олександра Кувшинова,[39] also transliterated Kuvshinova[37]) was 24 at the time of her death.[40]
- ^ Oksana Viktorovna Baulina (Russian: Оксана Викторовна Баулина)[49] was born 1 November 1979 in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia.[50]
- ^ Ukrainian: Віра Гирич, also transliterated Gyrych and Hyrych[90]
- ^ Ukrainian: Задоянчук Олег Іванович
- ^ Ukrainian: Дмитро Лабуткін
- ^ Ukrainian: Віктор Дудар[98]
- ^ Oleg Ivanovich Yakunin (Ukrainian: Олега Івановича Якуніна, first name also transliterated Oleh)[100]
- ^ Ukrainian: Юрій Олійник
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