List of journalists killed during the Russo-Ukrainian War

Two pairs of killings led to legal proceedings: In Rocchelli and Mironov's deaths, Ukrainian National Guard member Vitalii Markiv was tried in Italy for allegedly ordering the strike.

Yevhenii Sakun, a Ukrainian, was the first journalist killed in that phase of the war, a victim of a Russian airstrike on the Kyiv TV Tower on 1 March 2022.

[8][9] In July 2019, an Italian court convicted Vitalii Markiv, an Italian-Ukrainian dual citizen and an officer in the National Guard of Ukraine, of directing the strike that killed Rocchelli and Mironov.

[12] Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin, correspondent and sound engineer respectively for Russian state-owned broadcasting company VGTRK,[13][14] were struck by Ukrainian mortar shells on 17 June 2014 while filming a separatist roadblock[15] in Metalist, Slovianoserbsk Raion.

[16] Nadiya Savchenko, a Ukrainian army helicopter pilot, was captured by separatists the same day and was accused of directing the mortar strike.

[18] Savchenko was convicted by a Russian court on 21 March 2016,[19] in what Amnesty International characterized as a "flawed, deeply politicized trial".

[26] Serhiy Nikolayev, a photojournalist with the Ukrainian newspaper Segodnya, died along with soldier Mykola "Tank" Flerko during the shelling of the village of Pisky on 28 February 2015.

[34] Brent Renaud, a Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker and journalist who previously worked for The New York Times, was shot dead by Russian soldiers while at a checkpoint in Irpin on 13 March 2022.

[47] Killings of Oleksandra Kuvshynova and Pierre Zakrzewski[48] were condemned by the Director-General of the UNESCO Audrey Azoulay in a press-release published on 15 March.

[54] 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.

[60][61] Mantas Kvedaravičius, a Lithuanian documentary film director, was killed on 2 April 2022 while trying to leave the besieged city of Mariupol, the life of which he had documented for many years.

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.

[74] Kozhin was reported by his employer to have been killed from injuries sustained during a shelling attack on his film crew near Horlivka, Donetsk Oblast.

[78] At least six Ukrainian journalists or media workers have been killed during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine while not engaged in news-gathering or under ambiguous circumstances.

[2][3] Iryna Venediktova,[79] Prosecutor General of Ukraine, said in a Facebook post that Dilerbek Shukurovich Shakirov, a freelance journalist for weekly newspaper Navkolo tebe (Around You)[80] was shot dead on 26 February 2022, in Zelenivka, Kherson Oblast.

[81][82] A representative of the Institute of Mass Information confirmed his death;[80] the IMI listed him separate from journalists killed in the line of duty.

[84] 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.

[79][85] The committee to Protect Journalists reported on 13 April 2022 that Roman Nezhyborets, a video technician at Dytynets [uk], 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.

[87][91] The Irpin City Council reported on 12 April 2022 that Zoreslav Zamoysky, a freelance journalist and activist, had been found dead in the street in Bucha.

[93][86] Yevhenii Bal, a 78-year-old journalist and fiction writer, was taken from his home in Melekine, Mariupol Raion, by Russian soldiers on 18 March, after they found a picture of him with Ukrainian marines.

[94] 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.

[96][98] Victoria Roshchyna, a journalist who covered the war for multiple media outlets, was reported have died under unexplained circumstances on 19 September 2024 while imprisoned in Russia.

[1] Oleh Zadoyanchuk,[bio 6] a soldier in the 12th Territorial Defence Battalion and journalist with state news agency Ukrinform, was killed by Russian artillery shelling on 4 September 2014.

[101] Dmytro Labutkin,[bio 7] a military journalist with the Sevastopol TV channel Breeze [uk] prior to Russia's annexation of Crimea, died on 16 February 2015 during the Battle of Debaltseve.

[102][103] 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.

He went missing while in military service and was confirmed by the Verkhovna Rada to have been killed in action after six months, with his date of death being listed as 4 June 2023.

[122] 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.

[123] Press officer of the Russian Ministry of Defence within Zapad (West) Group of Forces, Major Evgeny Polovodov, also known with his callsign Buryj (Бурый), died on 10 April 2024 near Kreminna, Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine, in an artillery strike on a Vesti Lugansk TV crew.