A number of Ukrainian flag officers have been killed, wounded or captured during the Russo-Ukrainian War, including the Russian takeover of Crimea, the War in Donbas and the ongoing war. As of December 2025, this list includes 9 officers, including three of those who were promoted to general rank posthumously and one foreign general.
List
edit| Image | Name | Rank | Position | Date reported | Status | Notes |
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| 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea | ||||||
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Mykhailo Koval | .svg){kind=small} Colonel General |
Human Recources manager, State Border Guard Service of Ukraine | 5 March 2014 | Captured, later released | Captured by Russian Airborne Forces servicemen in Crimea. Released one day after.[1][2][3] |
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Serhiy Hayduk |  Counter admiral[a] |
Commander, Ukrainian Navy | 19 March 2014 | Captured, later released | Captured by pro-Russian forces alongside 8 other officials.[4] Released one day after.[5] |
| War in Donbass (2014–2022) | ||||||
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Serhii Kulchytskyi | .svg){kind=small} Major General |
Chief, Combat and Special Training Department of the National Guard of Ukraine | 29 May 2014[6] | Killed | Killed alongside 12 other servicemen when their Mil Mi-8 helicopter was shot down in Sloviansk.[7] |
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Mykhailo Kutsyn | .svg){kind=small} Lieutenant General |
Chief of the General Staff, Armed Forces of Ukraine | 2 July 2014 | Wounded | Shell-shocked in July 2014 in the Donbas war. Dismissed from his position by President Poroshenko.[8][9] |
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Ihor Fedorovych Momot |  Colonel[b] |
Deputy Chief, Eastern Regional Office of State Border Guard Service of Ukraine; Chief, Border Guard Training Center | 11 July 2014[10] | Killed | Killed by a Grad salvo in the Zelenopillia rocket attack.[10] |
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Oleksandr Vitaliyovych Radievsky | Colonel[c] |
Commander, 21st Separate Public Order Protection Brigade | 23 July 2014[11] | Killed | Ambushed alongside a battalion commander and a soldier in Lysychansk.[11] |
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Isa Munayev |  Brigadier General of Chechen National Army[12] |
Commander, Dzhokhar Dudayev Battalion | 1 February 2015 | Killed | Killed by tank shell shrapnel during the Battle of Debaltseve[13] |
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Maksym Shapoval |  Colonel[d] |
Commander, 10th Special Purpose Detachment | 27 June 2017[14] | Killed | Killed by a car bombing in central Kyiv.[15] |
| Russo-Ukrainian War (2022–present) | ||||||
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Artem Kotenko | .svg){kind=small} Brigadier General |
Chief of Staff, Ukrainian Air Assault Forces[16] | 4 November 2022[17] | Killed | According to Russian sources, Kotenko, alongside another officer, died of shrapnel wounds or wounds he sustained in a car crash.[18] His death was confirmed by the Zhytomyr City Council on 4 November 2024.[19] |
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edit- ↑ "Коваль: российские военные не хотят выполнять преступные приказы Путина". Украинская правда (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-08-06.
- ↑ "Депутаты назначили Коваля и.о. министра обороны". BBC News Україна (in Russian). 2014-03-25. Retrieved 2023-08-06.
- ↑ "Рада приняла отставку и.о. министра обороны Тенюха - Новости Харькова и Харьковской области. МГ «Объектив»". archive.objectiv.tv. Retrieved 2023-08-06.
- ↑ "Crimean hostages put in an electric chair, beaten, shot at". khpg.org.ua. Retrieved 2014-05-01.
- ↑ Jade Walker (2014-03-20). "Ukrainian Navy Commander Released: Serhiy Haiduk, Other Hostages Freed By Crimean Authorities". Huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2014-05-01.
- ↑ "21 захисника зі Львова посмертно нагородили "Почесним знаком Святого Юрія"". Suspilne Ukraine (in Ukrainian). 26 May 2023.
- ↑ "29 травня – роковини загибелі генерал-майора Сергія Кульчицького та екіпажу військового гелікоптера Мі-8 поблизу Слов'янська" (in Ukrainian). 29 May 2022.
- ↑ Poroshenko: Former Ukrainian General Staff chief shell-shocked in southeastern combat zone, Interfax-Ukraine (3 July 2014)
- ↑ Ukraine's new defence minister promises Crimea victory, BBC News (3 July 2014)
President appoints Muzhenko as commander-in-chief of Armed Forces, Ukrinform (3 July 2014) - 1 2 "Річниця обстрілу під Зеленопіллям: Україна втратила 36 воїнів, серед них екс-очільника Ізмаїльського прикордонного загону та прикордонника із Сарати" (in Ukrainian). 11 July 2023.
- 1 2 ""Радієвський Олександр Віталійович ("Маузер")"" ["Oleksandr Vitaliyovych Radievsky ("Mauser")" Ukraine Memory Book] (in Russian). 3 March 2022.
- ↑ Fedor, Julie; Greene, Samuel; Härtel, Andre; Makarychev, Andrey; Umland, Andreas (2016-10-11). Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society: 2016/2: Violence in the Post-Soviet Space. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-3-8382-6948-1.
- ↑ "Isa Munayev's War - The Final Days Of A Chechen Commander Fighting In Ukraine". The Intercept. 27 February 2015.
- ↑ "Maxim Mykhailovych Shapoval". Ukraine Memory Book (in Ukrainian). 26 May 2023.
- ↑ "Вибух в центрі Києва забрав життя командира спецпідрозділу Головного управління розвідки". Mil.in.ua. 27 June 2017.
- ↑ "У десантно-штурмових військах ЗСУ з'явився новий бригадний генерал". 22 November 2021.
- ↑ "Kotenko Artem Pavlovich". Zhytomyr City Council (in Ukrainian). 4 November 2024.
- ↑ "Появились сообщения о гибели бригадного генерала ВСУ Артема Котенко". www.mk.ru. 9 November 2022. Retrieved Apr 2, 2023.
- ↑ "Zhytomyr City Council". Zhytomyr City Council (in Ukrainian). 4 November 2024.