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 war in Donbas in 2014, starting with Italian journalist Andrea Rocchelli and his interpreter, Russian activist Andrei Mironov. In the following four months, four Russian journalists in the company of Russian separatist forces were killed by Ukrainian fire, as was one Ukrainian journalist in an incident that both sides in the conflict blamed on each other. 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. He was convicted but later exonerated. In the deaths of Russian journalists Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin by mortar strike, captured Ukrainian Army pilot Nadiya Savchenko was tried in Russia for allegedly ordering the strike. She was convicted and subsequently freed in a prisoner exchange with Ukraine. The relationship between Russian journalists and separatist forces became a subject of controversy.^[1]

A second wave of deaths began with the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. 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. Six more journalists have been killed by Russian soldiers, including four shot and one killed by shelling. The dead include American documentarian Brent Renaud, Ukrainian photojournalist Maks Levin, and most recently Lithuanian documentarian Mantas Kvedaravičius.

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 Armed Forces of Ukraine or the Russian separatist forces in Donbas.

Civilian journalists killed in the line of duty

Eighteen journalists and media workers are listed by the Committee to Protect Journalists's database as of 1 June 2022^[update] as having been killed in the Russo-Ukrainian War—seven in the war in Donbas in 2014–2015,^[2] ten in the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.^[3]

Name and nationality	Profession	Employer	Date of death	Killed by	Cause of death
Andrea Rocchelli	Photojournalist	Cesura	24 May 2014	Armed Forces of Ukraine	Shelling
Andrei Mironov	Interpreter and fixer	(Freelance)
Igor Kornelyuk	Correspondent	VGTRK	17 June 2014	Armed Forces of Ukraine	Shelling
Anton Voloshin	Sound engineer
Anatoly Klyan	Camera operator	Channel One	30 June 2014	Armed Forces of Ukraine	Shot
Andrey Stenin	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: Donbas People's Militia or Armed Forces of Ukraine	Shelling
Yevhenii Sakun	Photojournalist and correspondent	Live [uk]; EFE	1 March 2022	Russian Armed Forces	Airstrike
Brent Renaud	Documentarian	(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 [uk]	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	23 November 2023	Armed Forces of Ukraine	Shelling; drone strike (alleged by Russia)
Semyon Eremin	Journalist	Izvestia	19 April 2024	Armed Forces of Ukraine	Drone strike (alleged by Russia)
Valery Kozhin	Cameraman	NTV	13 June 2024	Armed Forces of Ukraine	Shelling (alleged by Russia)
Nikita Tsitsagi	Correspondent	NEWS.ru	15 June 2024	Armed Forces of Ukraine	Drone strike (alleged by Russia)

Andrea Rocchelli and Andrei Mironov

Italian photojournalist Andrea Rocchelli and Russian journalist and activist Andrei Mironov, who was serving as Rocchelli's fixer and interpreter,^[4][5] were killed on 24 May 2014 near the city of Slovyansk.^[4] The two men, plus French reporter William Roguelon, and a local driver were fired at on the way to their car. Roguelon stated that they were then targeted with 40 to 60 mortars.^[6][7]

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.^[8] Markiv's conviction was overturned in November 2020,^[9] a decision made final by the Supreme Court of Cassation in December 2021.^[10]

Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin

Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin, correspondent and sound engineer respectively for Russian state-owned broadcasting company VGTRK,^[11][12] were struck by Ukrainian mortar shells on 17 June 2014 while filming a separatist roadblock^[13] in Metalist, Slovianoserbsk Raion. Voloshin died instantly,^[12] while Kornelyuk died later that day.^[11]

Both men were posthumously awarded the Russian Order of Courage by Vladimir Putin.^[14]

Nadiya Savchenko, a Ukrainian army helicopter pilot, was captured by separatists the same day and was accused of directing the mortar strike.^[15] She claimed that she had rather been captured an hour before the attack.^[16] Savchenko was convicted by a Russian court on 21 March 2016,^[17] in what Amnesty International characterized as a "flawed, deeply politicized trial".^[18] She was pardoned by Vladimir Putin as a result of a prisoner swap for two Russian soldiers two months later.^[19]

Anatoly Klyan

Anatoly Klyan, a camera operator for Russian Channel One, was killed by Ukrainian soldiers while traveling with a group of protesting soldiers' mothers on 30 June 2014 in Donetsk Oblast.^[20][21] The trip had been organized by separatists and the driver was wearing camouflage.^[20] Klyan continued to film the attack until he grew too weak.^[20]

Andrey Stenin

Andrey Stenin, a Russian photojournalist and correspondent for several Russian and international news agencies, disappeared on 5 August 2014 while embedded with Russian-backed forces in Donetsk.^[22] He was confirmed dead on 3 September 2014.^[23]

Stenin's body was found in a burnt-out car alongside Donetsk People's Republic militia Information Corps members Sergei Korenchenkov and Andrei Vyachalo (see § Sergei Korenchenkov and Andrei Vyachalo). Their deaths were not announced until ten days after his. The Interpreter magazine, a publication of the Institute of Modern Russia, suggested that Russia was trying to obscure the connection between Stenin and militia members.^[1] Ukrainian journalist Yuriy Butusov [uk] described Stenin as a "zampolit of Strelkov" rather than a journalist.^[1]

Stenin was posthumously awarded the Order of Courage by Vladimir Putin.^[24]

Serhiy Nikolayev

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.^[25] Nikolayev was wearing a bulletproof vest marked "PRESS".^[26] Both sides in the war blamed each other.^[27]

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]

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