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

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	5 March 2014	Captured, later released	Captured by Russian Airborne Forces and Russian civilians in Crimea. Released one day after.[3][4][5]
Serhii Kulchytskyi	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]
Ihor Fedorovych Momot	Major General (posthumously)	Deputy Head of the Eastern Regional Office of Security Service of Ukraine	11 July 2014[11]	Killed	Killed by a Grad salvo during the Zelenopillia rocket attack.[11]
Oleksandr Vitalijovych Radiyevs'kyj	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]
Maksym Shapoval	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]
Artem Pavlovich Kotenko [uk]	Brigade General	Chief of Staff and Deputy Commander of Ukrainian Air Assault Forces.[17]	4 November 2022[18]	Killed	Reportedly killed along Col. Volodymyr Oleksiyovych Levchuk after a mine hit their vehicle in Zhytomyr, according to Russian sources on 9 November 2022.[19] Death was confirmed on 4 November 2024, by the Zhytomyr City Council.[20]

See also

• Casualties of the Russo-Ukrainian War
• List of Russian generals killed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
• Order of battle for the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Notes

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]