Casualties of the Russo-Ukrainian War

Casualties in the Russo-Ukrainian War included six deaths during the 2014 annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, 14,200–14,400 civilians and military troops killed during the War in Donbas (2014–2022), and tens of thousands of deaths during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Russian annexation of Crimea

Main article: Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation

During the Russian annexation of Crimea from 23 February through 19 March 2014, six people were killed. The dead included three protesters, two Ukrainian soldiers and one Russian Cossack paramilitary. On 10 August 2016, Russia accused the Special Forces of Ukraine of conducting a raid near the Crimean town of Armiansk which killed two Russian servicemen. The government of Ukraine dismissed the report as a provocation. Ten people were forcibly disappeared between 2014 and 2016 and were still missing as of 2017.

War in Donbas (before 2022 invasion)

Main article: War in Donbas (2014–2022)

Civilian casualties of the war in Donbas

A mural of Ukrainian soldiers who died during the war in Donbas in 2014

The overall number of estimated deaths in the War in Donbas, which started on 6 April 2014, was 14,200–14,400 through 31 December 2021, including non-combat military deaths. Most of the deaths took place in the first two years of the war between 2014 and 2015, when major combat took place before the Minsk agreements.

Total deaths

Breakdown	Fatalities	Time period	Source
Total	14,200–14,400 killed	6 April 2014 – 31 December 2021	United Nations
Civilians	3,404 killed (306 foreign)	6 April 2014 – 31 December 2021	United Nations
Ukrainian ZSU, NGU, SBGS and volunteer forces	4,400 killed	6 April 2014 – 31 December 2021	United Nations
	4,647 killed	6 April 2014 – 23 February 2022	Museum of Military History
Pro-Russian DPR and LPR forces	6,517 killed	6 April 2014 – 23 February 2022	United Nations, DPR & LPR
Russian Armed Forces	400–500 killed	6 April 2014 – 10 March 2015	US State Department

Initially, the known number of Ukrainian military casualties varied widely due to the Ukrainian Army drastically understating its casualties, as reported by medics, activists and soldiers on the ground, as well as at least one lawmaker. Several medical officials reported they were overstretched due to the drastic number of casualties. Eventually, the Ukrainian Defence Ministry stated that the numbers recorded by the National Museum of Military History were the official ones, although still incomplete, with 4,629 deaths (4,490 identified and 139 unidentified) cataloged by 1 December 2021.

According to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 1,175 of the Ukrainian servicemen died due to non-combat causes by 5 March 2021. Subsequently, the military did not publish new figures on their non-combat losses, stating they could be considered a state secret.

Deaths by regions

Deaths of Ukrainian soldiers in 2018.

The following table does not include the 298 deaths from the shootdown of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 or the deaths of Ukrainian servicemen, which are listed separately.

Region	Fatalities	Time period	Source
Donetsk region	2,420 civilians and DPR fighters killed	6 April 2014 – 15 February 2015	OCHA
Luhansk region	1,185 civilians and LPR fighters killed	1 May 2014 – 15 February 2015	OCHA
Donetsk region	5,042 civilians and DPR fighters killed	6 April 2014 – 18 February 2022	DPR
Luhansk region	1,998 civilians and LPR fighters killed	6 April 2014 – 23 February 2022	LPR

A wall of St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery in Kyiv has been transformed into a war memorial with the photos of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers who were killed during the war in Donbas

Missing and captured

At the beginning of June 2015, the Donetsk region's prosecutors reported 1,592 civilians had gone missing in government-controlled areas, of which 208 had been located. At the same time, a report by the United Nations stated 1,331–1,460 people were missing, including at least 378 soldiers and 216 civilians. 345 unidentified bodies, of mostly soldiers, were also confirmed to be held at morgues in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast or buried. In all, as of late October, 774 people were missing according to the government, including 271 soldiers. By the end of December 2017, the number of confirmed missing on the Ukrainian side was 402, including 123 soldiers. The separatists also reported 433 missing on their side by mid-December 2016, and 321 missing by mid-February 2022.

As of mid-March 2015, according to the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), 1,553 separatists had been released from captivity during prisoner exchanges between the two sides. Subsequently, Ukraine released another 322 people by late February 2016, while by September, 1,598 security forces members and 1,484 civilians had been released by the rebels. 1,110 separatist fighters and supporters, including 743 civilians, were reportedly still being held by Ukrainian forces as of late March 2016. The figure of separatist prisoners was updated to 816, including 287–646 civilians, in December. At the end of May 2015, the Ukrainian commander of Donetsk airport, Oleg Kuzminykh, who was captured during the battle for the complex, was released.

In December 2017, a large prisoner exchange took place where the rebels released 73 out of 176 prisoners they were holding, while Ukraine released 306 out of 380 of their prisoners. Out of those that were released by Ukraine, 29 brought to the exchange point refused to go back to separatist-held territory, while 40 who were already previously released did not show up for the exchange. Meanwhile, out of those released by the rebels, 32 were soldiers. This brought the overall number of prisoners released by the rebels to 3,215. Among those still held by the separatists, 74 were soldiers. The number of released prisoners was updated to 3,224 in late June 2018, while the number of those still held by the rebels was put at 113. At the end of December 2019, a new prisoner exchange took place, with Ukraine releasing 124 separatist fighters and their supporters, while 76 prisoners, including 12 soldiers, were returned to Ukraine by the rebels. Another five or six prisoners released by the separatists decided to stay in rebel-controlled territories.

Foreign fighters

Foreign volunteers have been involved in the conflict, fighting on both sides. The NGO Cargo 200 reported that they documented the deaths of 1,479 Russian citizens while fighting as part of the rebel forces. The United States Department of State estimated 400–500 of these were regular Russian soldiers. Two Kyrgyz and one Georgian have also been killed fighting on the separatist side. Additionally, at least 262 foreign-born Ukrainian citizens or foreigners died on the Ukrainian side. One of those killed was the former Chechen rebel commander Isa Munayev.

In late August 2015, according to a reported leak by a Russian news site, Business Life (Delovaya Zhizn), 2,000 Russian soldiers had been killed in Ukraine by 1 February 2015.

Foreign civilians and journalists

Further information: List of journalists killed during the Russo-Ukrainian War

At least 306 foreign civilians were killed in the war in Donbas prior to the 2022 invasion:

• 298 passengers and crew of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
• Italian journalist Andrea Rocchelli and his Russian fixer and interpreter, activist Andrei Mironov
• Four other civilian journalists and media workers from Russia: Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin, a correspondent and sound engineer respectively; Anatoly Klyan, a camera operator; and Andrey Stenin, a photojournalist
• One Russian civilian killed in the shelling of Donetsk, Russia
• One Lithuanian diplomat

Landmines and other explosive remnants

As a consequence of the conflict, large swaths of the Donbas region have become contaminated with landmines and other explosive remnants of war (ERW). According to the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine, in 2020 Ukraine was of one of the most mine-affected countries in the world, with nearly 1,200 mine/ERW casualties since the beginning of the conflict in 2014. A report by UNICEF released in December 2019 said that 172 children had been injured or killed due to landmines and other explosives.

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

Main article: 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

Total casualties

Breakdown	Casualties	Time period	Source
Civilians	9,000–41,193+ killed (est.)	24 February 2022 – 17 January 2023	Ukrainian government
	7,068 killed, 11,415 wounded (conf. minimum, thought higher)	24 February 2022 – 22 January 2023	United Nations
	40,000 casualties	24 February – 9 November 2022	US CJCS estimate
	20,000 killed and wounded	24 February – 30 November 2022	EC estimate
	30,000 killed	24 February 2022 – 22 January 2023	Norwegian Chief of Defence
Ukrainian forces (ZSU, NGU, SBGS)	10,000 killed, 30,000 wounded, 7,200 missing (5,600 captured)	24 February – 3 June 2022	Ukrainian government
	61,207 killed, 49,368 wounded	24 February – 21 September 2022	Russian government
	100,000+ killed and wounded	24 February – 9 November 2022	US CJCS estimate
	100,000+ killed and wounded	24 February 2022 – 22 January 2023	Norwegian Chief of Defence
Ukrainian forces (ZSU)	10,000–13,000 killed	24 February – 1 December 2022	Ukrainian government
Russian and allied forces (VSRF, Rosgvardiya, FSB, PMC Wagner, PMC Redoubt, DPR & LPR)
	60,000 killed, 180,000–190,000 wounded	24 February – 15 November 2022	DGEUMS estimate
	100,000+ killed, wounded and deserted	24 February – 13 December 2022	UK estimate
	150,000+ killed and wounded	24 February 2022 – 21 January 2023	US estimate
	180,000 killed and wounded	24 February 2022 – 22 January 2023	Norwegian Chief of Defence
	36,000+ killed, 128,000+ wounded (est.)	24 February 2022 – 22 January 2023	BBC News Russian & Mediazona
	121,480 losses	24 February 2022 – 23 January 2023	Ukrainian government
Russian forces (VSRF, Rosgvardiya, FSB, PMC Wagner, PMC Redoubt)	24,000+ killed (est., 12,538 conf. by names), 86,000+ wounded (est.)	24 February 2022 – 26 January 2023	BBC News Russian & Mediazona
Russian forces (VSRF)	5,937 killed	24 February – 21 September 2022	Russian government
Russian forces (PMC Wagner)	800–1,000 killed	24 February – 4 November 2022	Ukrainian CCHT NGO
	4,100+ killed, 10,000+ wounded	24 February 2022 – 6 January 2023	US estimate
	737 killed (conf. by names)	24 February 2022 – 22 January 2023	BBC News Russian & Mediazona
Donetsk PR forces	4,163 killed, 17,329 wounded	26 February – 22 December 2022	Donetsk PR
	4,500+ killed	24 February 2022 – 22 January 2023	BBC News Russian & Mediazona
Luhansk PR forces	1,300+ killed	24 February 2022 – 22 January 2023	BBC News Russian & Mediazona

According to BBC News Russian and the Mediazona news website, out of 12,538 Russian soldiers and contractors whose deaths they had documented by 26 January 2023, 13.1 percent (1,641) were officers, while 14.9 percent (1,866) were Motorized Rifle Troops and 11.7 percent (1,469) were members of the Russian Airborne Forces (VDV). In addition, 6.6 percent (823) of Russian soldiers whose deaths had been confirmed were people who were mobilized, while 3.7 percent (458) were convicts. The BBC further stated that "Every week, we discover new evidence of Russian military funerals in different localities of Russia, which were not reported by local authorities. Based on these observations, we can assume that the list of confirmed losses maintained by the BBC contain at least 40-60% fewer names of the dead than actually buried in Russia." Thus, the BBC stated that the actual death toll could be over 24,000 "according to the most conservative estimate", counting only Russian servicemen and contractors (i.e. excluding DPR/LPR militia). Mediazona added that "the real toll is likely in the tens of thousands."

Meanwhile, at the height of the fighting in May and June 2022, according to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and presidential advisor Mykhailo Podolyak, between 100 and 200 Ukrainian soldiers were being killed in combat daily, while presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych stated 150 soldiers were being killed and 800 wounded daily. Mid-June, Davyd Arakhamia, Ukraine's chief negotiator with Russia, told Axios that between 200 and 500 Ukrainian soldiers were killed every day. By late July, Ukrainian daily losses fell to around 30 killed and about 250 wounded.

With respect to Russian military losses, Ukrainian estimates tended to be high, while Russian estimates of their own losses tended to be low. Combat deaths can be inferred from a variety of sources, including satellite imagery and video image of military actions. According to a researcher at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University in Sweden, regarding Russian military losses, Ukraine's government was engaged in a misinformation campaign aimed to boost morale and Western media were generally happy to accept its claims, while Russia was "probably" downplaying its own casualties. Ukraine also tended to be quieter about its own military fatalities. According to BBC News, Ukrainian claims of Russian fatalities were including the injured as well. Analysts warned about accepting the Ukrainian claims as fact, as Western countries were emphasizing the Russian military's toll, while Russian news outlets have largely stopped reporting on the Russian death toll. In early June 2022, the Svetlogorsk City Court in the Kaliningrad region ruled that a list of Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine, published by privately owned news websites, constituted "classified information" and its publication could be considered a criminal offense.

The number of civilian and military deaths is impossible to determine with precision given the fog of war. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) considers the number of civilian casualties to be considerably higher than the one the United Nations are able to certify.

Civilian deaths

By December 2022, 19 of Ukraine's 24 oblasts had been documented by open-source intelligence to have civilian deaths. Additionally, Chernivtsi Oblast was the only region of Ukraine not to be attacked by Russian forces.

By 15 January 2023, the Ukrainian prosecutor general announced that at least 454 children had been killed since the start of the invasion, with a further 894 wounded. Most victims among children were from the Donetsk region. At least 55 of the war-related child deaths were from the Kyiv area and another 34 were from Kharkiv. According to Ukraine, 239 children have also been reported missing, and 7,894 deported, as of 3 October 2022. Russia reported that Ukrainian shelling of border areas in the Belgorod, Kursk and Bryansk Oblasts killed 13 people, while an alleged Ukrainian attack on drilling platforms in the Black Sea near Crimea reportedly left seven workers missing. In addition, due to missiles striking the Polish village of Przewodów in Lublin Voivodeship on 15 November 2022, two Polish civilians were killed.

Civilian Deaths by Area Area Fatalities Time period Source Cherkasy Oblast 2 killed 24 February – 26 June 2022 Ukrainian government Chernihiv Oblast 700–899 killed 24 February – 31 December 2022 Dnipropetrovsk Oblast 118 killed 24 April – 14 January 2023 Donetsk Oblast (lower figure excluding Mariupol and Volnovakha) 1,320–4,746 killed 24 February 2022 – 25 January 2023 Kharkiv Oblast 1,699–3,784 killed 24 February – 31 December 2022 Kherson Oblast 503–686 killed 24 February 2022 – 15 January 2023 Kirovohrad Oblast 7 killed 24 February – 28 July 2022 Kyiv Oblast 1,620–2,072 killed 24 February – 31 December 2022 Luhansk Oblast 815 killed 24 February – 31 December 2022 Lviv Oblast 7 killed 18 April 2022 Mariupol 25,000+ killed 24 February – 25 May 2022 Mykolaiv Oblast 426–2,207 killed 24 February 2022 – 17 January 2023 Odesa Oblast 33 killed 24 February – 23 September 2022 Poltava Oblast 22 killed 27 June 2022 Rivne Oblast 25 killed 24 February – 23 June 2022 Sumy Oblast 106–341 killed 24 February – 31 December 2022 Vinnytsia Oblast 23 killed 14 July 2022 Volyn Oblast 5 killed 24 February – 25 July 2022 Zaporizhzhia Oblast 66–118 killed 24 February 2022 – 9 January 2023 Zhytomyr Oblast 39–283 killed 24 February – 31 December 2022 Total 33,536–41,193+ killed 24 February 2022 – 25 January 2023

Civilian Deaths by Area Area Fatalities Time period Source Western Russia 16 killed 24 February – 18 December 2022 Russian Government Donetsk People's Republic 1,094–4,409 killed 26 February – 12 January 2023 Donetsk PR Luhansk People's Republic 169 killed 17 February – 25 December 2022 Luhansk PR Area Fatalities Time period Source Lublin Voivodeship 2 killed 15 November 2022 Polish government

Foreign civilians

At least 43 civilian foreign citizens from 20 countries are confirmed to have been killed during the war.

Country	Deaths	Reference(s)
Greece	12
Azerbaijan	8
United Kingdom	3
Belarus	2
United States	2
Poland	2
Afghanistan	1
Algeria	1
Armenia	1
Bangladesh	1
Czech Republic	1
Egypt	1
France	1
India	1
Iraq	1
Ireland	1
Israel	1
Lithuania	1
Moldova	1
Russia	1

Paul Urey and Dylan Healy, two British aid workers were captured by Russian forces, Healy was charged with 'forcible seizure of power' and undergoing 'terrorist' training, but later released on 22 September while Urey died in captivity. An American citizen was also detained by pro-Russian separatists forces and accused of 'participation in pro-Ukrainian protests'. He was released on 28 October, and reached Ukrainian-controlled territory by 14 December.

Foreign fighters and volunteers

Excluding the Russian and Ukrainian military casualties, at least 207 combatants and volunteers, foreign citizens or foreign-born, were killed during the war. Another 1,000 had been wounded while fighting on the Ukrainian side. Below is a list of the nationalities of the foreign fighter casualties.

Dead foreign fighters of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine Country Deaths Allegiance Reference(s) Ukrainian Armed forces (150) Argentina 1 Ukrainian Foreign Legion Australia 4 Ukrainian Foreign Legion Sich Battalion Austria 1 Ukrainian Armed Forces Azerbaijan 25 Armed Forces of Ukraine Georgian Legion Belarus 19 Kastuś Kalinoŭski Battalion 24th Mechanized Brigade 72nd Mechanized Brigade Belgium 1 Ukrainian Foreign Legion Brazil 3 Ukrainian Foreign Legion Canada 3 Ukrainian Foreign Legion Colombia 6 Ukrainian Foreign Legion Croatia 1 Armed Forces of Ukraine Czech Republic 1 Ukrainian Foreign Legion Denmark 1 Ukrainian Foreign Legion France 3 Ukrainian Foreign Legion Sich Battalion Georgia 36 Georgian Legion Sich Battalion Azov Regiment Dzhokhar Dudayev Battalion 25th TDB "Kyivska Rus" 57th Motorized Brigade Germany 1 Ukrainian Foreign Legion Hungary 1 Ukrainian Foreign Legion Ireland 1 Ukrainian Foreign Legion Israel 2 Ukrainian Armed Forces Italy 1 Ukrainian Foreign Legion Japan 1 Ukrainian Foreign Legion Netherlands 1 Ukrainian Foreign Legion New Zealand 1 Ukrainian Foreign Legion Poland 6 Ukrainian Foreign Legion Russia 5 Ukrainian Armed Forces Ukrainian Foreign Legion Spain 1 Ukrainian Foreign Legion South Korea 1 Ukrainian Foreign Legion Sweden 4 Ukrainian Foreign Legion Taiwan 1 Sich Battalion United Kingdom 5 Ukrainian Foreign Legion United States 12 Ukrainian Foreign Legion Uzbekistan 1 Ukrainian Foreign Legion Russian Armed Forces (47) Belarus 1 Private military company Kyrgyzstan 13 Russian Army Moldova 1 Russian Army South Ossetia 12 Russian Army Syria 9 Private military company Tajikistan 9 Russian Army Tanzania 1 Private military company Zambia 1 Private military company Donetsk PR forces (7) Abkhazia 1 Pyatnashka Brigade Colombia 1 Pyatnashka Brigade Italy 1 Pyatnashka Brigade South Ossetia 4 Pyatnashka Brigade Luhansk PR forces (3) Italy 1 Prizrak Brigade Serbia 1 Prizrak Brigade Slovakia 1 Prizrak Brigade

Captured foreign fighters of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine Country Captured Allegiance Status Reference(s) Ukrainian Armed forces (13) Belarus 2 Kastuś Kalinoŭski Battalion Prisoners Croatia 1 Ukrainian Foreign Legion Released Israel 1 Ukrainian Foreign Legion Prisoner Morocco 1 Ukrainian Foreign Legion Released Sweden 1 Ukrainian Foreign Legion Released United Kingdom 4 Armed Forces of Ukraine Ukrainian Foreign Legion Released United States 3 Armed Forces of Ukraine Ukrainian Foreign Legion 2 Released 1 Prisoner Russian Armed forces (2) Uzbekistan 2 Private military company Prisoners (as of Sep. 2022)

A Peruvian citizen was also reported missing while fighting alongside the Ukrainian military.

Identification and repatriation

Sergiy Kyslytsya, the Ukrainian Ambassador to the United Nations, announced on 27 February 2022, that the country had reached out to the International Committee of the Red Cross for help in the repatriation effort of the bodies of killed Russian soldiers. Due to concerns that Russia was not reporting the number or any casualties of soldiers in Ukraine, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry began issuing appeals that same day for relatives of Russian soldiers to help identify wounded, captured, or killed soldiers. The initiative, called Ishchi Svoikh (Russian: Ищи Своих, lit. 'Look for Your Own'), appeared aimed in part at undermining morale and support for the war in Russia and was quickly blocked by the Russian government's media regulator the day the initiative began at the request of Russia's Prosecutor-General's Office.

Ukrainian authorities began using facial recognition technology supplied to them by Clearview AI on 12 March 2022, to help identify the deceased, along with potentially using it to uncover Russian spies, vet people at checkpoints and potentially combat misinformation. The Chief Executive of Clearview claimed that the technology could be more effective than matching fingerprints or other identifiable aspects of the individual, although a study by US Department of Energy highlighted the concern of decomposition reducing the effectiveness. Kyiv authorities have also reached out to the International Commission on Missing Persons, which was formed to help after the 1990s Balkan conflicts and the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, and identifies individuals by collecting DNA samples from the deceased and families to cross match. The organization will also document the location of the body and how the individual died.

As Russian soldiers began to retreat the identification of the dead civilians who had been unreported due to communication issues and constant fighting began to be reported. Documentation and identification of the bodies began with many hastily dug graves and rubble being cleared away to photograph and identify the bodies as well as count the number involved. Handwritten tags and passports have been attached to the bodies after identification before they are taken by coroners and officials. In some locations villagers kept track of the deceased, such as in Yahidne, a village north of Kyiv, where they used a school basement wall to write the names of the deceased while under Russian control.

As of late May 2022, Ukrainian authorities had stored at least 137 bodies of Russian soldiers that were collected near Kyiv, as well as 62 in the Kharkiv region. During June, the bodies of 374 Russian soldiers were exchanged for the bodies of 365 Ukrainian servicemen between Ukraine and Russia.

Notable deaths

Ukrainian military

Funeral of captain Oleksandr Korpan on 7 March 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 died in the Battle of Kyiv.
• On 25 February, Irina 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.
• On 27 February, Sergeant Oleksiy Seniuk was killed by Russian Armed Forces in the Siege of Chernihiv.
• On 1 March, Oleksandr Kulyk, an Olympic cycling coach, was killed in the battle near Nyzy in Sumy Oblast.
• On 2 March, Captain Oleksandr Korpan was killed in Starokostiantyniv, Khmelnytskyi.
• 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 Ukrainian Parliament and member of 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 "Vinnytsa Scythians" was killed in battle near Zaparizhzhia.
• On 10 March, Yevhen Deidei, a former member of the Ukrainian Parliament, and deputy leader of Special Tasks Patrol Police Kyiv-1, was killed during the Battle of Kyiv in unknown circumstances.
• On 12 March, Colonel Dmytro Apukhtin, Deputy Commander of the 23rd Public Security Protection Brigade was killed near Mariupol during the attack of an enemy column.
• On 12 March, Colonel Valeriy Hudz, Commander of the 24th Mechanized Brigade was killed in Lugansk.
• On 13 March, Major Stephen 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, Belarusian volunteer, member of Ukrainian Special Operations Forces and deputy Commander of Kastuś Kalinoŭski Battalion. Killed by Russian forces during an ambush in the outskirt of Kyiv.
• On 14 March, Mykola Kravchenko, a public and political figure, and the founder of the right-wing Azov Battalion, was killed during the Battle of Kyiv.
• On 25 March, Senior lieutenant Maxim Kagal was killed during the Battle of Mariupol. He was a kickboxing athlete and world champion in the national team of Ukraine; awarded posthumously Hero of Ukraine.
• On 1 April, Yuriy Ruf, a poet, was killed while fighting Russian forces in Luhansk.
• On 30 April, Ivan Bidnyak, a Silver medalist at the European Shooting Championships, was killed in action.
• On 7 May, Colonel Ihor Bedzai, Commander of the 10th Naval Aviation Brigade, and deputy commander of Ukrainian Navy, was killed by a missile from a Russian fighter jet while performing a combat mission.
• On 9 June, Roman Ratushny, a Euromaidan activist and soldier, died during a battle near Izyum.
• On 12 June, Aleksey Chubashev, a military journalist and soldier, died during the Donbas offensive. Chubashev was the Chief of a Radio and a TV channel of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense.
• On 19 June, Oleh Kutsyn, a political and military figure, died during battle in Izyum. Kutsyn 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, head of the Ukrainian Air Force 40th Tactical Aviation Brigade colonel Mykhailo Matyushenko was killed in dogfight over Black Sea.
• On 30 June, Thalita do Valle, a Brazilian model and actor, was killed by a missile strike, whilst fighting in Kharkiv.
• On 23 July, Colonel Vitaliy Gulyaev, Commander of the 28th Separate Mechanized Brigade died in Mykolaiv by an enemy airtrike.
• 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 3 September, Vyacheslav Nalivaiko, soldier and the Director of the military enterprise Ukrainian Armor was killed near Mykolayv.
• On 12 September, Oleksandr Shapoval, a ballet dancer and choreographer at the National Opera of Ukraine was killed in a battle near Donetsk.
• On 19 September, Major Andriy Nikolaychuk, Deputy Commander of the 93rd Mechanized Brigade, was killed in Kharkiv.
• On 27 September, Ablyatif Rustem, a political scientist and Crimean Tatar historian and public figure, died fighting against Russian troops.
• On 28 September, Lieutenant Colonel Igor Bezoglyuk, founder of the Legion for Ukraine died in Kharkiv when his vehicle was hit by a mine.
• On 28 December, Volodomyr Yezhov, developer of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky and Cossacks video game series, was reported killed in Bakhmut.

Ukrainian civilians and journalists

Further information: List of journalists killed during the Russo-Ukrainian War

• On 7 March, Mayor of Hostomel, Yuriy Prylypko, was killed by Russian forces.
• On 17 March, Artem Datsyshyn, a ballet dancer, died from injuries suffered on 26 February from Russian shelling in Kyiv.
• On 17 March, Yevhen Obedinsky, a member of the Ukrainian Olympic waterpolo team, died in the Siege of Mariupol.
• On 18 March, Borys Romanchenko, a Holocaust survivor, was killed in a shelling attack in Kharkiv.
• On 18 March, Oksana Shvets, an actress, died in a shelling attack on a Kyiv residential building.
• On 23 March, Mayor of Motyzhyn, Olga Sukhenko, was killed by Russian forces.
• On 31 March, Oleksiy Tsybko, a rugby union player, was killed by Russian forces.
• On 2 April, the Prosecutor General's office announced the death of Ukrainian photographer Maks Levin due to Russian small-arms fire. He had disappeared on 13 March.
• On 28 April, Vira Hyrych, a Ukrainian journalist, was killed by Russian shelling.
• On 29 April, the Mariupol City Council reported that Alina Peregudova, 14, who won gold at Ukraine's national weightlifting championship in 2021 and was on course to represent Ukraine at the Olympics, was killed in the Russian shelling of Mariupol. Her mother was also killed in the attack.
• On 30 April, Lyubov Panchenko, a fashion designer, died of starvation.
• On 31 July, Oleksiy Vadaturskyi, an agricultural and grain logistics businessman and the founder of Nibulon, the largest grain logistic company in Ukraine, was killed in the Russian shelling of Mykolaiv. His wife was also killed in the attack.
• On 12 October, Yurii Kerpatenko, principal conductor of the Mykola Kulish Music and Drama Theatre, was killed by Russian forces in his home.
• On 18 January 2023 multiple people were killed in a helicopter crash including
  • Denys Monastyrsky, Minister of Internal Affairs
  • Yevhen Yenin, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs
  • Yurii Lubkovych, State Secretary of Internal Affairs

Foreign civilians and journalists

Further information: List of journalists killed during the Russo-Ukrainian War

• On 13 March, Brent Renaud, an American journalist and documentarian, was killed by Russian forces.
• On 2 April, Mantas Kvedaravičius, a Lithuanian documentarian, was killed while fleeing the Siege of Mariupol.
• On 15 November, Polish civilians Bogusław Wos and Bogdan Ciupek, first instance of a citizens of a NATO member state dying on NATO territory during 2022 missile explosion in Poland in Przewodów, Poland

Russian and DPR/LPR military

See also: List of Russian generals killed during the 2022 invasion of Ukraine

Russian postage stamp honoring a soldier killed in Ukraine who was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation

• On 4 March, Major general Andrei Sukhovetsky, deputy commander of the 41st Combined Arms Army, was killed in combat.
• On 5 March, Colonel Vladimir Zhoga, commander of the Sparta Battalion, was killed in Volnovakha.
• On 11 March, Ukrainian officials claimed Major general Andrei Kolesnikov, commander of the 29th Combined Arms Army, was killed in combat.
• On 15 March, Ukrainian officials claimed Major general Oleg Mityaev, commander of the 150th Rifle Division, was killed in combat by the Azov Battalion.
• On 19–20 March, Russian officials confirmed that Captain 1st rank Andrei Paliy, a deputy commander of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, was killed in combat in Mariupol.
• On 25 March, Ukrainian officials claimed Lieutenant general Yakov Rezantsev, commander of Russia's 49th Combined Arms Army, was "most likely" killed as a result of Ukrainian strike on the command post of 49th Russian Army in Chornobaivka.
• On 15 April, Ukrainian officials claimed that Captain 1st Rank Anton Kuprin, the captain of the Moskva, was killed when the ship sank on 14 April.
• On 16 April, Russian officials said that Major General Vladimir Petrovich Frolov, Deputy Commander of the 8th Guards Army, was killed in combat in Ukraine, details were not provided.
• On 30 April, Ukrainian officials claimed that Major general Andrei Simonov, Chief of the Electronic Warfare Troops of the 2nd Army, was killed by Ukrainian forces near Izium.
• On 22 May, Major general Kanamat Botashev, was killed in the Luhansk region when his Su-25 was shot down by a FIM-92 Stinger missile.
• On 5 June, Lieutenant general Roman Kutuzov, Commander of the 1st Army Corps, Donetsk People's Militia, was killed in Popasnyansky district, Luhansk.
• On 9 July, Colonel Alexey Gorobets, Commander of the 20th Guards Motor Rifle Division, was killed by a HIMARS attack in Kherson Oblast.
• On 29 July, Colonel Olga Kachura was killed by a missile strike in Horlivka.

Pro-Russian Ukrainian civilians

• On 2 March, Volodymyr Struk, the mayor of Kreminna and a former member of the Ukrainian Parliament was found shot dead after being kidnapped.
• On 27 March, Oleksandr Rzhavskyy, a former member of the Ukrainian Parliament, was killed by Russian forces during the Bucha massacre.
• On 9 May, Davyd Zhvania, a former member of the Ukrainian Parliament and Emergency Minister of Ukraine, was killed by Russian forces.
• On 28 August, Oleksii Kovalov, a member of the Ukrainian Parliament, was shot dead during an attack at his place of residence.
• On 16 September, Sergei Gorenko, Prosecutor General of the Luhansk People's Republic, was killed in an explosion from an improvised explosive device in Luhansk.
• On 25 September, Oleksiy Zhuravko, a former member of the Ukrainian Parliament, died in a Ukrainian airstrike in Kherson during the Ukrainian southern counteroffensive.
• On 9 November, Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the Russian administration in Kherson and pro-Russian social media personality, died in a car crash.

Prisoners of war

See also: War crimes in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine § Treatment of prisoners of war, and Torture of Russian soldiers in Mala Rohan

There have been many instances of troops being captured by both Ukrainian and Russian forces throughout the invasion.

Captured Russian soldiers during the battle of Sumy.

Ukrainian soldiers surrender at the end of the siege of Mariupol.

Russia claimed to have captured 572 Ukrainian soldiers by 2 March 2022, while Ukraine claimed 562 Russian soldiers were being held as prisoners as of 20 March, with 10 previously reported released in prisoner exchanges for five Ukrainian soldiers and the mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov. Subsequently, the first large prisoner exchange took place on 24 March, when 10 Russian and 10 Ukrainian soldiers, as well as 11 Russian and 19 Ukrainian civilian sailors, were exchanged. Among the released Ukrainian soldiers was one of 13 Ukrainian border-guard members captured during the Russian attack on Snake Island. Later, on 1 April, 86 Ukrainian servicemen were exchanged for an unknown number of Russian troops.

On 8 March, a Ukrainian defense reporter with The Kyiv Independent announced that the Ukrainian government was working towards having Russian POWs help revive Ukraine's economy in full compliance with international law. Ukraine's ambassador to the U.S., Oksana Markarova, reported that a platoon of the 74th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade from Kemerovo Oblast surrendered to Ukraine, saying they "didn't know that they were brought to Ukraine to kill Ukrainians". Ukraine held a series of press conferences with about a dozen POW's, where the POW's made comments against the invasion, how they had been manipulated and for the conflict to end. While some have raised concerns that the conferences breach the Geneva Convention through potential unnecessary humiliation, US journalists who spoke to POW's independently of the conference claimed there was no intervention by Ukraine officials, by physical or mental coercion. According to The Guardian, while it was likely that Ukraine was using the discomfort of captured soldiers for propaganda purposes, still the videos succeeded in showing the Russian servicemen's "authentic sense" of regret for having come to Ukraine. Amnesty International argued that Article 13 of the Third Geneva Convention prohibits videos of captured soldiers. Captured Ukrainian soldiers with British citizenship were recorded calling for Boris Johnson to arrange for them to be freed in exchange for pro-Kremlin Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuck. The videos were broadcast separately on Rossiya 24 TV channel, causing MP Robert Jenrick, to call the videos a "flagrant breach" of the Geneva Convention. A Russian spokeswoman claimed that she had also told Johnson during a phone call about the men's treatment that the UK should "show mercy" to the Ukrainian citizens by stopping military aid to the Ukrainian government when asked to show the men mercy.

On 11 March it was stated by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry that Russian armed forces were attempting to coerce Ukrainian POW's to fight for Russia in exchange for amnesty. The head of the Ukrainian Coordination Headquarters for POW Treatment, Iryna Vereshchuk, raised concerns that Russia had not released information to Ukrainian authorities on the location of any Ukrainian POW's and the International Red Cross had not been allowed to see them, as of 16 March.

By 21 April, Russia claimed that 1,478 Ukrainian troops had been captured during the course of the siege of Mariupol. On 22 April, Yuri Sirovatko, Minister of Justice of the Donetsk People's Republic, claimed that some 3,000 Ukrainian prisoners of war were held in the territory of the DPR. On 20 May, the Russian Ministry of Defense claimed that 2,439 Ukrainian soldiers had been taken prisoner over the previous five days as a result of the surrender of the last defenders of Mariupol, entrenched inside the Azovstal Iron and Steel Works. On 26 May, Rodion Miroshnik, ambassador of the Luhansk People's Republic to Russia, claimed that around 8,000 Ukrainian POWs were held within the territory of the DPR and LPR. According to a statement by Sergei Shoigu, Russia's Minister of Defence, in early June 2022, 6,489 Ukrainian soldiers had surrendered since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

In a report by The Independent on 9 June, it cited an intelligence report that more than 5,600 Ukrainian soldiers had been captured, while the number of Russian servicemen being held as prisoners had fallen to 550, from 900 in April, following several prisoner exchanges. In contrast, the Ukrayinska Pravda newspaper claimed 1,000 Russian soldiers were being held as prisoners as of 20 June.

According to Ukraine, as of 30 December 2022, 3,392 Ukrainian servicemen were being held by Russia as prisoners of war, while 15,000 soldiers and civilians were missing. The ICMP also stated a month earlier that 15,000 people were missing since the start of the Russian invasion. The following day, 31 December, 140 Ukrainian servicemen were released in a prisoner exchange, bringing the number of released prisoners from Russian captivity to 1,464 servicemen and 132 civilians.

Dates of prisoner exchanges	Russian prisoners	Ukrainian prisoners	Reference
1 March 2022	1 soldier	5 soldiers
16 March 2022	9 soldiers	1 civilian
24 March 2022	10 soldiers, 11 civilians	10 soldiers, 19 civilians
1 April 2022	Unknown	86 soldiers
9 April 2022	Unk. soldiers, 18 civilians	12 soldiers, 14 civilians
14 April 2022	Unknown	22 soldiers, 8 civilians
15 April 2022	4 soldiers	5 soldiers
19 April 2022	Unknown	60 soldiers, 16 civilians
21 April 2022	Unknown	10 soldiers, 9 civilians
28 April 2022	Unknown	33 soldiers, 12 civilians
30 April 2022	Unknown	7 soldiers, 7 civilians
6 May 2022	Unk. soldiers, 11 civilians	28 soldiers, 13 civilians
10 June 2022	4 soldiers	4 soldiers, 1 civilian
18 June 2022	5 N/A	5 civilians
28 June 2022	15 N/A	16 soldiers, 1 civilian
29 June 2022	144 soldiers	144 soldiers
2 September 2022	Unknown	14 soldiers
21 September 2022	55 soldiers, 1 civilian	214 soldiers, 1 civilian
30 September 2022	Unknown	4 soldiers, 2 civilians
11 October 2022	Unknown	32 soldiers
13 October 2022	10 soldiers	20 soldiers
17 October 2022	30 soldiers, 80 civilians	96 soldiers, 12 civilians
26 October 2022	Unknown	10 soldiers
29 October 2022	50 soldiers	50 soldiers, 2 civilians
3 November 2022	107 soldiers	107 soldiers
10 November 2022	45 soldiers	45 soldiers
23 November 2022	35 soldiers	35 soldiers, 1 civilian
24 November 2022	50 soldiers	50 soldiers
26 November 2022	9 soldiers	9 soldiers, 3 civilians
1 December 2022	50 soldiers	50 soldiers
6 December 2022	60 soldiers	60 soldiers
14 December 2022	N/A	64 soldiers, 1 civilian
31 December 2022	82 soldiers	140 soldiers

See also

• Outline of the Russo-Ukrainian War
• The Wall of Remembrance of the Fallen for Ukraine
• Casualties during the 2013–2014 Ukraine crisis
• Military history of the Russian Federation
• List of people killed during the Revolution of Dignity