, at least 15 civilian
journalist
A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalism ...
s and media workers have been killed in the line of duty since the
Russo-Ukrainian War
The Russo-Ukrainian War; uk, російсько-українська війна, rosiisko-ukrainska viina. has been ongoing between Russia (alongside Russian separatists in Ukraine) and Ukraine since February 2014. Following Ukraine's Rev ...
began in 2014. Six have been Russian, four Ukrainian, one Italian, one American, one Lithuanian, one Irish and one French.
An initial wave of journalist fatalities occurred in the early stages of the
War in Donbas
War is an intense armed conflict between states, governments, societies, or paramilitary groups such as mercenaries, insurgents, and militias. It is generally characterized by extreme violence, destruction, and mortality, using regula ...
in 2014, starting with Italian journalist
Andrea Rocchelli
Andrea Rocchelli (27 September 1983 – 24 May 2014) was an Italian freelance photojournalist and founder of the independent photographers collective ''Cesura''. He was killed during the Donbas war and Ukrainian authorities were accused by his p ...
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
Vitalii Mykhailovych Markiv ( uk, Віталій Михайлович Марків; born 16 August 1989) is a Ukrainian former military commander of the General Serhiy Kulchytsky Battalion of the National Guard of Ukraine. He was prosecuted and ...
was tried in Italy for allegedly ordering the strike. He was convicted but later
exonerated
Exoneration occurs when the conviction for a crime is reversed, either through demonstration of innocence, a flaw in the conviction, or otherwise. Attempts to exonerate convicts are particularly controversial in death penalty cases, especially ...
. In the deaths of Russian journalists
Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin
On 17 June 2014, VGTRK, Russian state television correspondent Igor Kornelyuk and sound engineer Anton Voloshin were victims of a mortar strike launched by the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Metalist, Slovianoserbsk Raion, Metalist, Slovianoserbsk R ...
by mortar strike, captured Ukrainian Army pilot
Nadiya Savchenko
Nadiya Viktorivna Savchenko ( uk, Надія Вікторівна Савченко; born 11 May 1981) is a Ukrainian politician, former Army aviation pilot in the Ukrainian Ground Forces and former People's Deputy of Ukraine.
During the 20 ...
was tried in Russia for allegedly ordering the strike. She was convicted and subsequently freed in a
prisoner exchange
A prisoner exchange or prisoner swap is a deal between opposing sides in a conflict to release prisoners: prisoners of war, spies, hostages, etc. Sometimes, dead bodies are involved in an exchange.
Geneva Conventions
Under the Geneva Conven ...
with Ukraine. The relationship between Russian journalists and separatist forces became a subject of controversy.
A second wave of deaths began with the full-scale
Russian invasion of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides. It has caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. ...
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
Brent Anthony Renaud (October 2, 1971 – March 13, 2022) was an American journalist, documentary filmmaker, and photojournalist. Renaud worked with his brother Craig to produce films for outlets such as HBO and Vice News, and was a former con ...
, Ukrainian photojournalist
Maks Levin
Maksim Yevhenovych Levin ( uk, Максим Євгенович Левін, translit=Maksym Yevhenovych Levin; 7 July 1981 – ) was a Ukrainian photographer. He reported as a photojournalist from 2006, for LB.ua and Reuters among many other ...
, 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
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or the
Russian separatist forces in Donbas
The Donetsk People's Militia and Luhansk People's Militia (formerly also called Russian separatist forces in Donbas) are pro-Russian paramilitaries in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, which have been fighting the Armed Forces of Ukraine i ...
.
Civilian journalists killed in the line of duty
Fifteen journalists and media workers are listed by the
Committee to Protect Journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is an American independent non-profit, non-governmental organization, based in New York City, New York, with correspondents around the world. CPJ promotes press freedom and defends the rights of journ ...
's database as having been killed in the Russo-Ukrainian War—seven in the
war in Donbas
War is an intense armed conflict between states, governments, societies, or paramilitary groups such as mercenaries, insurgents, and militias. It is generally characterized by extreme violence, destruction, and mortality, using regula ...
in 2014–2015,
[ ''Note'': List includes one journalist killed outside the context of the war.] eight in the full-scale
Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022
On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides. It has caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. An ...
.
Andrea Rocchelli and Andrei Mironov

Italian photojournalist
Andrea Rocchelli
Andrea Rocchelli (27 September 1983 – 24 May 2014) was an Italian freelance photojournalist and founder of the independent photographers collective ''Cesura''. He was killed during the Donbas war and Ukrainian authorities were accused by his p ...
and Russian journalist and activist
Andrei Mironov, who was serving as Rocchelli's
fixer and interpreter,
were killed on 24 May 2014 near the city of
Slovyansk
Sloviansk ( uk, Слов'янськ, Sloviansk ; russian: Славянск, Slavyansk or ; prior to 1784 – Tor) is a city in the Kramatorsk district of the Donetsk region of Ukraine, the administrative center of the Slovyansk urban commun ...
.
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
Mortar may refer to:
* Mortar (weapon), an indirect-fire infantry weapon
* Mortar (masonry), a material used to fill the gaps between blocks and bind them together
* Mortar and pestle, a tool pair used to crush or grind
* Mortar, Bihar, a village ...
.
Legal proceedings against Vitalii Markiv

In July 2019, an Italian court convicted
Vitalii Markiv
Vitalii Mykhailovych Markiv ( uk, Віталій Михайлович Марків; born 16 August 1989) is a Ukrainian former military commander of the General Serhiy Kulchytsky Battalion of the National Guard of Ukraine. He was prosecuted and ...
, an Italian-Ukrainian
dual citizen
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Paired/two things
* Dual (mathematics), a notion of paired concepts that mirror one another
** Dual (category theory), a formalization of mathematical duality
*** see more cases in :Duality theories
* Dual (grammatical ...
and an officer in the
National Guard of Ukraine
The National Guard of Ukraine (NGU; uk, Націона́льна гва́рдія Украї́ни, Natsionalna hvardiia Ukrainy, , ) is the Ukrainian national gendarmerie and internal military force. It is part of the Ministry of Internal ...
, of directing the strike that killed Rocchelli and Mironov.
Markiv's conviction was overturned in November 2020,
a decision made final by the
Supreme Court of Cassation
A court of cassation is a high-instance court that exists in some judicial systems. Courts of cassation do not re-examine the facts of a case, they only interpret the relevant law. In this they are appellate courts of the highest instance. In th ...
in December 2021.
Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin
Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin, correspondent and
sound engineer
An audio engineer (also known as a sound engineer or recording engineer) helps to produce a recording or a live performance, balancing and adjusting sound sources using equalization, dynamics processing and audio effects, mixing, reproduction, ...
respectively for Russian state-owned broadcasting company
VGTRK,
were struck by Ukrainian
mortar shells
A mortar is usually a simple, lightweight, man-portable, muzzle-loaded weapon, consisting of a smooth-bore (although some models use a rifled barrel) metal tube fixed to a base plate (to spread out the recoil) with a lightweight bipod mount and a ...
on 17 June 2014 while filming a separatist roadblock
in
Metalist,
Slovianoserbsk Raion
Slovianoserbsk Raion () was a raion (district) in Luhansk Oblast of eastern Ukraine. It was named after Slavo-Serbia, an imperial Russian province that existed between 1753–64. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrativ ...
. Voloshin died instantly,
while Kornelyuk died later that day.
Both men were posthumously awarded the Russian
Order of Courage by
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin; (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who holds the office of president of Russia. Putin has served continuously as president or prime minister since 1999: as prime m ...
.
Legal proceedings against Nadiya Savchenko
Nadiya Savchenko
Nadiya Viktorivna Savchenko ( uk, Надія Вікторівна Савченко; born 11 May 1981) is a Ukrainian politician, former Army aviation pilot in the Ukrainian Ground Forces and former People's Deputy of Ukraine.
During the 20 ...
, a Ukrainian army helicopter pilot, was captured by separatists the same day and was accused of directing the mortar strike.
She claimed that she had rather been captured an hour before the attack.
Savchenko was convicted by a Russian court on 21 March 2016, in what
Amnesty International characterized as a "flawed, deeply politicized trial".
She was
pardoned
A pardon is a government decision to allow a person to be relieved of some or all of the legal consequences resulting from a criminal conviction. A pardon may be granted before or after conviction for the crime, depending on the laws of the j ...
by Vladimir Putin as a result of a
prisoner swap
A prisoner exchange or prisoner swap is a deal between opposing sides in a conflict to release prisoners: prisoners of war, spies, hostages, etc. Sometimes, dead bodies are involved in an exchange.
Geneva Conventions
Under the Geneva Conven ...
for two Russian soldiers two months later.
Anatoly Klyan
Anatoly Klyan, a
camera operator
A camera operator, or depending on the context cameraman or camerawoman, is a professional operator of a film camera or video camera as part of a film crew. The term "cameraman" does not imply that a male is performing the task.
In filmmakin ...
for Russian
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Television networks and channels
*Channel One (Albania)
*10 Bold, an Australian television channel formerly known as One
*Channel 1 (Bangladeshi TV channel)
*BNT 1, Bulgaria
*One (Canadian TV channel)
*Canal 1 ...
,
was killed by Ukrainian soldiers while traveling with a group of protesting soldiers' mothers on 30 June 2014 in
Donetsk region
The Donetsk Oblast ( ukr, Донецька область, Donetska oblast, ), also referred to as Donechchyna ( ukr, Донеччина, links=no), is an oblast of eastern Ukraine. It is Ukraine's most populous province, with around 4.1 mill ...
.
The trip had been organized by separatists and the driver was wearing
camouflage
Camouflage is the use of any combination of materials, coloration, or illumination for concealment, either by making animals or objects hard to see, or by disguising them as something else. Examples include the leopard's spotted coat, the b ...
.
Klyan continued to film the attack until he grew too weak.
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.
He was confirmed dead on 3 September 2014.
Stenin's body was found in a burnt-out car alongside
Donetsk People's Republic
The Donetsk People's Republic ( rus, Донецкая Народная Республика, Donetskaya Narodnaya Respublika, dɐˈnʲetskəjə nɐˈrodnəjə rʲɪˈspublʲɪkə; abbreviated as DPR or DNR, rus, ДНР) is a disputed en ...
militia Information Corps members Sergei Korenchenkov and Andrei Vyachalo (''see'' ). Their deaths were not announced until ten days after his. ''The Interpreter'' magazine, a publication of the
Institute of Modern Russia
The Institute of Modern Russia (IMR) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy organization—a think tank—headquartered in New York City. It was founded in February 2010, by leading experts in Russia-US relations and human rights. According t ...
, suggested that Russia was trying to obscure the connection between Stenin and militia members.
Ukrainian journalist Yuriy Butusov insulted Stenin as a ''
zampolit'' (military political indoctrinator) rather than a journalist.
Stenin was posthumously awarded the Order of Courage by Vladimir Putin.
Serhiy Nikolayev
Serhiy Nikolayev, a photojournalist with the Ukrainian newspaper ''
Segodnya
''Segodnya'' ( rus, Сегодня, p=sʲɪˈvodʲnʲə, t=Today, a=Ru-сегодня.ogg) was a Russian-language Ukrainian tabloid newspaper founded in 1997. While run from Kyiv, it was linked to Donbass political and business groups; its hol ...
'', died along with soldier Mykola "Tank" Flerko during the shelling of the village of
Pisky Pisky ( uk, Піски, , sands, link=no) may refer to several places in Ukraine:
*Pisky, Chernihiv Oblast, village in Nizhyn Raion
*Pisky, Donetsk Oblast, a village near Donetsk International Airport
*, a village in Bashtanka Raion
*Pisky, Lviv R ...
on 28 February 2015.
Nikolayev was wearing a
bulletproof vest
A bulletproof vest, also known as a ballistic vest or a bullet-resistant vest, is an item of body armor that helps absorb the impact and reduce or stop penetration to the torso from firearm-fired projectiles and fragmentation from explosions. Th ...
marked "PRESS".
Both sides in the war blamed each other.
Nikolayev had previously been attacked by the
Berkut special police while reporting on the
Euromaidan
Euromaidan (; uk, Євромайдан, translit=Yevromaidan, lit=Euro Square, ), or the Maidan Uprising, was a wave of Political demonstration, demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine, which began on 21 November 2013 with large protes ...
demonstrations in 2013.
After his death he was awarded the title ''
Hero of Ukraine
Hero of Ukraine (HOU; uk, Герой України, ''Heroi Ukrainy'') is the highest national title that can be conferred upon an individual citizen by the President of Ukraine. The title was created in 1998 by President Leonid Kuchma and a ...
'' by
Petro Poroshenko
Petro Oleksiyovych Poroshenko ( uk, Петро́ Олексі́йович Пороше́нко, ; born 26 September 1965) is a Ukrainian businessman and politician who served as the fifth president of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019. Poroshenko se ...
.
Yevhenii Sakun
Yevhenii Sakun,,
also transliterated
a photojournalist for Ukrainian TV channel and correspondent with
EFE
Agencia EFE, S.A. () is a Spanish international news agency, the major multimedia news agency in Spanish language and the world's fourth largest wire service after the Associated Press, Reuters, and Agence France-Presse. EFE was created in 193 ...
, was killed by an attack on the
Kyiv TV Tower
The Kyiv TV Tower ( uk, Телевізійна вежа, translit=Televiziyna vezha) is a lattice metal tower on Oranzhereina Street, Kyiv, Ukraine, and is the tallest structure in the country. The tower was built in 1973 while Kyiv was the ca ...
on 1 March 2022,
in what
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders (RWB; french: Reporters sans frontières; RSF) is an international non-profit and non-governmental organization with the stated aim of safeguarding the right to freedom of information. It describes its advocacy as found ...
described as a "precision strike" on the facility.
Brent Renaud
Brent Renaud
Brent Anthony Renaud (October 2, 1971 – March 13, 2022) was an American journalist, documentary filmmaker, and photojournalist. Renaud worked with his brother Craig to produce films for outlets such as HBO and Vice News, and was a former con ...
, a
Peabody Award
The George Foster Peabody Awards (or simply Peabody Awards or the Peabodys) program, named for the American businessman and philanthropist George Peabody, honor the most powerful, enlightening, and invigorating stories in television, radio, and ...
-winning
documentary filmmaker and journalist who previously worked for ''
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...
'', was shot dead by Russian soldiers while at a
checkpoint
Checkpoint may refer to:
Places
* Border checkpoint, a place on the land border between two states where travellers and/or goods are inspected
* Security checkpoint, erected and enforced within contiguous areas under military or paramilitary co ...
in
Irpin
Irpin ( uk, Ірпі́нь, ) is a Hero City of Ukraine located on the Irpin River in Bucha Raion, Kyiv Oblast (province) right next to the city of Kyiv in northern Ukraine. Irpin hosts the administration of Irpin urban hromada, one of the hro ...
on 13 March 2022.
Renaud, who was known for his work depicting refugees and deportees, had been filming evacuating refugees,
according to his colleague .
Pierre Zakrzewski and Oleksandra Kuvshynova
Pierre "Zak" Zakrzewski, an Irish photojournalist working for
Fox News
The Fox News Channel, abbreviated FNC, commonly known as Fox News, and stylized in all caps, is an American multinational conservative cable news television channel based in New York City. It is owned by Fox News Media, which itself is ...
, and Oleksandra "Sasha" Kuvshynova,,
also transliterated
) was 24 at the time of her death.
a Ukrainian
freelancer working with Fox, were killed on 14 March 2022 when their vehicle came under fire in
Horenka,
Kyiv Oblast
Kyiv Oblast ( uk, Ки́ївська о́бласть, translit=Kyïvska oblast), also called Kyivshchyna ( uk, Ки́ївщина), is an oblast (province) in central and northern Ukraine. It surrounds, but does not include, the city of Kyiv, w ...
.
British journalist
Benjamin Hall, also of Fox, was wounded in the same attack.
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.
He had worked for Fox in the
Iraq War
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,
War in Afghanistan
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*Conquest of Afghanistan by Alexander the Great (330 BC – 327 BC)
* Muslim conquests of Afghanistan (637–709)
*Conquest of Afghanistan by the Mongol Empire (13th century), see al ...
, and
Syrian civil war,
and had received Fox's "Unsung Hero" employee award for his role in evacuating Afghan freelancers and their families after the
U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Shortly before his death, he had found an abandoned infant on the streets of Kyiv and brought it to a hospital.
Kuvshynova had been guiding Fox crews and assisting with newsgathering.
Oksana Baulina

Oksana Baulina,)
was born 1 November 1979 in
Krasnoyarsk Krai
Krasnoyarsk Krai ( rus, Красноя́рский край, r=Krasnoyarskiy kray, p=krəsnɐˈjarskʲɪj ˈkraj) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai), with its administrative center in the city of Krasnoyarsk, the third-largest city in ...
, Russia.
a Russian journalist for the independent investigative website ''
The Insider'', was killed in the
Podilskyi District
The Podilskyi District ( uk, Подільський район) is an urban district of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. Its population was 177,563 at the 2001 census. The district takes its name from the historic Podil neighborhood which it inclu ...
of Kyiv on 23 March 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.
Baulina, once a
fashion editor
A fashion editor is a person that supervises the process of creating, developing and presenting content for the fashion department of a magazine, Web site, newspaper or television program.
The work of a fashion editor can be quite varied and may ...
at ''
Time Out Moscow
''Time Out'' is a global magazine published by Time Out Group. ''Time Out'' started as a London-only publication in 1968 and has expanded its editorial recommendations to 328 cities in 58 countries worldwide.
In 2012, the London edition becam ...
'', became an activist with
Alexei Navalny
Alexei Anatolievich Navalny ( rus, links=no, Алексей Анатольевич Навальный, , ɐlʲɪkˈsʲej ɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvʲɪtɕ nɐˈvalʲnɨj; born 4 June 1976) is a Russian opposition leader, lawyer, and anti-corruption act ...
's
Anti-Corruption Foundation
The Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF or FBK; russian: Фонд борьбы с коррупцией (ФБК), Fond borby s korruptsiyey (FBK), Foundation for combating corruption) is a non-profit organization established in 2011 by Russian opposit ...
in 2016.
She
emigrated
Emigration is the act of leaving a resident country or place of residence with the intent to settle elsewhere (to permanently leave a country). Conversely, immigration describes the movement of people into one country from another (to permanentl ...
to Poland shortly before the organization was branded extremist by the Russian government.
Before the invasion, she was based in
Warsaw
Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is official ...
, and during the invasion had reported from
Kyiv
Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...
and
Lviv
Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in western Ukraine, and the seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukra ...
.
Her final work included interviews with Russian
prisoners of war
A prisoner of war (POW) is a person who is held Captivity, captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict. The earliest recorded usage of the phrase "prisoner of war" dates back to 1610.
Belligerents hold priso ...
, whom she let call home using her cell phone.
Maks Levin
Maks Levin
Maksim Yevhenovych Levin ( uk, Максим Євгенович Левін, translit=Maksym Yevhenovych Levin; 7 July 1981 – ) was a Ukrainian photographer. He reported as a photojournalist from 2006, for LB.ua and Reuters among many other ...
, a Ukrainian photojournalist working for the media outlet , went missing on 13 March 2022 and was found dead near the village of
Huta-Mezhyhirska
Huta-Mezhyhirska ( uk, Гута-Межигірська) is a village in Vyshhorod Raion ( district) in Kyiv Oblast of Ukraine. It belongs to Petrivtsi rural hromada, one of the hromada
A hromada ( uk, територіальна гром� ...
in the Kyiv region 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.
Levin had worked with
Reuters
Reuters ( ) is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters Corporation. It employs around 2,500 journalists and 600 photojournalists in about 200 locations worldwide. Reuters is one of the largest news agencies in the world.
The agency was est ...
, the
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, and the
Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American non-profit news agency headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1846, it operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association. It produces news reports that are distributed to its members, U.S. n ...
, among other news organizations. Most of his documentary projects were related to the war in Ukraine.
Levin disappeared along with Oleksiy Chernyshov, another Ukrainian journalist, who was found dead on 1 April 2022.
A report from ''
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders (RWB; french: Reporters sans frontières; RSF) is an international non-profit and non-governmental organization with the stated aim of safeguarding the right to freedom of information. It describes its advocacy as found ...
'' concluded that the evidence they were murdered by Russian forces was overwhelming.
Mantas Kvedaravičius
Mantas Kvedaravičius, a Lithuanian
documentary film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in te ...
director, was killed on 2 April 2022 while trying to leave the besieged city of
Mariupol
Mariupol (, ; uk, Маріу́поль ; russian: Мариу́поль) is a city in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. It is situated on the northern coast ( Pryazovia) of the Sea of Azov, at the mouth of the Kalmius River. Prior to the 2022 Russi ...
, the life of which he had documented for many years.
According to the Russian film director
Vitaly Mansky
Vitaly Vsevolodovich Mansky (russian: Виталий Всеволодович Манский, uk, Віталій Всеволодович Манський; born 2 December 1963 in Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Russian documentary fi ...
, Kvedaravičius "died with a camera in his hand".
Lyudmyla Denisova
Lyudmyla Leontiyivna Denisova; russian: Людмила Леонтьевна Денисова, translit=Lyudmila Leontyevna Denisova [ombudsperson
An ombudsman (, also ,), ombud, ombuds, ombudswoman, ombudsperson or public advocate is an official who is usually appointed by the government or by parliament (usually with a significant degree of independence) to investigate complaints and at ...]
for human rights, alleged that Kvedaravičius "was taken prisoner by '
rashists
Ruscism, also known as Rashism,, ; , group=lower-alpha Russism,, group=lower-alpha or Russian fascism,; , group=lower-alpha is a term used by a number of scholars, politicians and publicists to describe the political ideology and social pr ...
', who later shot him. The occupiers threw the director's body out into the street". Kvedaravičius's widow reported that two days after his death a Russian soldier had led her to his body. She said that he had been shot in the stomach, but there was "no blood on the ground" and no bullet hole in the clothes he was wearing.
Kvedaravičius had earlier worked to document torture and forced disappearances in Russia's
North Caucasus
The North Caucasus, ( ady, Темыр Къафкъас, Temır Qafqas; kbd, Ишхъэрэ Къаукъаз, İṩxhərə Qauqaz; ce, Къилбаседа Кавказ, Q̇ilbaseda Kavkaz; , os, Цӕгат Кавказ, Cægat Kavkaz, inh, ...
region. His 2011 documentary about war-ravaged
Chechnya was awarded an
Amnesty International prize.
Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff
On 30 May 2022, French President
Emmanuel Macron
Emmanuel Macron (; born 21 December 1977) is a French politician who has served as President of France since 2017 French presidential election, 2017. ''Ex officio'', he is also one of the two Co-Princes of Andorra. Prior to his presidency, M ...
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 the
Luhansk Oblast
Luhansk Oblast ( uk, Луга́нська о́бласть, translit=Luhanska oblast; russian: Луганская область, translit=Luganskaya oblast; also referred to as Luhanshchyna, uk, Луга́нщина) is the easternmost Adminis ...
. The French Minister of Foreign Affairs,
Catherine Colonna
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Colonna previously served as Ambassad ...
, stated that he had died as the result of a Russian action.
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
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine while not engaged in news-gathering or under ambiguous circumstances. , Shakirov, Dedov, and Girich are not included in the committee to Protect Journalists's list, while Nezhyborets, Zamoysky, and Bal are listed as "motive unconfirmed".
Dilerbek Shakirov
Iryna Venediktova
Iryna Valentynivna Venediktova ( uk, Ірина Валентинівна Венедіктова; born 21 September 1978) is a Ukrainian politician, academic, and lawyer, previously a prosecutor general of Ukraine from March 2020 to July 2022. S ...
,
Prosecutor General of Ukraine
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, said in a
Facebook
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post that Dilerbek Shukurovich Shakirov, a freelance journalist for weekly newspaper ''Navkolo tebe'' (''Around You'')
was shot dead on 26 February 2022, in
Zelenivka,
Kherson Oblast.
A representative of the
Institute of Mass Information confirmed his death;
the IMI listed him separate from journalists killed in the line of duty.
The
BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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reported Venediktova's statement but did not independently confirm it.
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.
Venediktova said that Shakirov had been killed by Russian soldiers firing an
automatic weapon
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from a car.
Roman Nezhyborets
The committee to Protect Journalists reported on 13 April 2022 that Roman Nezhyborets, a video technician at , had been found dead in
Yahidne Yahidne may refer to several populated places in Ukraine.
* Yahidne, Chernihiv Oblast
* Yahidne, Donetsk Oblast
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