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List of Ukrainian flag officers losses during the Russo-Ukrainian War

During the course of the Russo-Ukrainian War, including the Russian takeover of Crimea, the War in Donbas and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian flag officers have become casualties including killed, captured or wounded.

List

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Name Rank Position Date reported Status Notes
Serhiy Hayduk   Vice Admiral Admiral of the Ukrainian Navy 19 March 2014 Captured, later released Captured by pro-Russian forces along 8 other officials.[1] Released after order of the Russian MOD.[2]
Mykhailo Koval   Colonel General Ministry of Defense and Commander of Border Troops 27 June 2014 Captured, later released Captured by Russian Airborne Forces and Russian civilians in Crimea. Released one day after.[3][4][5]
Kul'chyts'kyj Serhij Petrovych   Major General[a] Head of the Combat and Special Training Department of the Main Directorate of the National Guard 29 May 2014[7] Killed Killed alongside 12 other servicemen when their Mil Mi-8 helicopter was shot down in Sloviansk.[8]
Mykhailo Kutsyn   Lieutenant General Chief of the General Staff and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine 2 July 2014 Wounded, relieved from position Shell-shocked on 2 July 2014 while combating the 2014 insurgency in Donbass. Dismissed by President Pietr Poroshenko.[9][10]
Momot Ihor Fedorovych   Major General (posthumously) Deputy Head of the Eastern Regional Office of Security Service of Ukraine 11 July 2014[11] Killed Killed by a Grad missile attack salvo.[11]
Radiyevs'kyj Oleksandr Vitalijovych   Major General (posthumously) Commander of the 21st Separate Public Order Protection Brigade 23 July 2014[12] Killed Ambushed alongside Col. P. Snitsar and a soldier in Lysychansk.[12]
Isa Munayev   Brigadier General of Chechen Army[13] Commander of the Dzhokhar Dudayev Battalion 1 February 2015 Killed Killed during the Battle of Debaltseve[14]
Shapoval Maksym Mykhajlovych   Major General (posthumously) Commander of the 10th Separate Special Purpose Unit [uk] of GUR 27 June 2017[15] Killed Killed by a car bombing in Kyiv, Russian attack.[16] See 2017 Kyiv bomb attack [uk]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ A major general is a one-star general, equivalent to lowest General rank in NATO ranks most commonly named a variant of Brigadier General, e.g. U.S. brigadier general and UK brigadier.[6]

References

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  1. ^ "Crimean hostages put in an electric chair, beaten, shot at". khpg.org.ua. Retrieved 2014-05-01.
  2. ^ Jade Walker (2014-03-20). "Ukrainian Navy Commander Released: Serhiy Haiduk, Other Hostages Freed By Crimean Authorities". Huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2014-05-01.
  3. ^ "Коваль: российские военные не хотят выполнять преступные приказы Путина". Украинская правда (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-08-06.
  4. ^ "Депутаты назначили Коваля и.о. министра обороны". BBC News Україна (in Russian). 2014-03-25. Retrieved 2023-08-06.
  5. ^ "Рада приняла отставку и.о. министра обороны Тенюха - Новости Харькова и Харьковской области. МГ «Объектив»". archive.objectiv.tv. Retrieved 2023-08-06.
  6. ^ Mauldin, William; Grove, Thomas; Pancevski, Bojan (16 March 2022). "Four Russian Generals Killed in Three Weeks Show Moscow's Vulnerabilities in Ukraine". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 26 March 2022. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  7. ^ "21 захисника зі Львова посмертно нагородили "Почесним знаком Святого Юрія"". Suspilne Ukraine (in Ukrainian). 26 May 2023.
  8. ^ "29 травня – роковини загибелі генерал-майора Сергія Кульчицького та екіпажу військового гелікоптера Мі-8 поблизу Слов'янська" (in Ukrainian). 29 May 2022.
  9. ^ Poroshenko: Former Ukrainian General Staff chief shell-shocked in southeastern combat zone, Interfax-Ukraine (3 July 2014)
  10. ^ 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)
  11. ^ a b "Річниця обстрілу під Зеленопіллям: Україна втратила 36 воїнів, серед них екс-очільника Ізмаїльського прикордонного загону та прикордонника із Сарати" (in Ukrainian). 11 July 2023.
  12. ^ a b ""Радієвський Олександр Віталійович ("Маузер")"" ["Oleksandr Vitaliyovych Radievsky ("Mauser")" Ukraine Memory Book] (in Russian). 3 March 2022.
  13. ^ 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.
  14. ^ "Isa Munayev's War - The Final Days Of A Chechen Commander Fighting In Ukraine". The Intercept. 27 February 2015.
  15. ^ "Maxim Mykhailovych Shapoval". Ukraine Memory Book (in Ukrainian). 26 May 2023.
  16. ^ "Вибух в центрі Києва забрав життя командира спецпідрозділу Головного управління розвідки". Mil.in.ua. 27 June 2017.
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