Template:Timeline of reporters killed in Ukraine

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Year Date Event
1995 April Volodymyr Ivanov of Slava Sevastopolya, in Sevastopol [1]
1996 May Ihor Hrushetsky in Cherkasy[1]
1997 13 March Petro Shevchenko, correspondent for the daily Kyivskiye Vedomosti in Luhansk, Ukraine, is found hanging in an abandoned building in Kyiv. He had co-authored articles about disputes between the mayor of Luhansk and the local branch of the Ukrainian Security Services.[2]
11 August Borys Derevyanko, editor-in-chief of the Ukrainian newspaper, Vechirnia Odesa, shot twice and killed while on the way to an editorial board meeting at his office.[2]
1999 16 May Ihor Bondar director of the AMT television station, was shot and killed in an Odesa residential neighbourhood, as he was driving in a car with Boris Vikhrov, the Odesa court's presiding judge. The magistrate was also killed in the attack. This double murder was carried out by men with Kalashnikov-style automatic weapons riding in a car.[2]
2000 16 September Georgiy Gongadze who co-founded a news website, Ukrainska Pravda, killed in the Tarashcha Raion (district) after being kidnapped.
2001 24 June Oleh Breus publisher of the regional weekly, XXI Vek, was shot dead by two gunmen outside his home in Luhansk. He was shot in the head and back at point blank range as he was getting out of his car. The motive for the murder remains unknown, although colleagues at XXI Vek said they had received threats in recent months. Breus himself narrowly escaped an assassination attempt in December 2000.[2]
7 July Ihor Oleksandrov, director of the private TV and radio station TOR in Sloviansk, died of injuries sustained on 3 July, when four unidentified men wielding baseball bats attacked him at his office. Local media suggested that Oleksandrov's death was linked to his investigations into corruption and organised crime.[2][3] Four former policemen were sentenced to 7-13 years imprisonment for fraud during the criminal case involving Oleksandrov in March 2012.[4]
2002 27 November Mykhailo Kolomiets, co-founder of Ukrainian News Agency found dead hanging on a tree in Belarus.[5]
2003 14 December Volodymyr Karachevtsev, 47, deputy editor-in-chief of Kuryer newspaper, was found dead in his home in Melitopol. He was discovered hanging from the handle of his refrigerator. Karachevtsev was also chairman of the regional independent union of journalists and a correspondent for the online publication, Vlasti.net. Police did not rule out the possibility of murder.[2]
2004 3 March Yuriy Chechyk, director of Radio Yuta in Poltava, died under suspicious circumstances in a car crash. He was on the way to meet with executives of Radio Liberty's Ukrainian Service, which is often critical of the Ukrainian government, to hold talks on rebroadcasting the station's programmes on the more accessible FM band.[2]
2010 August Vasyl Klymentyev, a Ukrainian investigative journalist, editor-in-chief of the newspaper Novy Stil based in Kharkiv. He went missing in August and is presumed dead. He had been investigating local corruption.[6]
2014 20 February Ihor Kostenko, a 22-year-old Ukrainian journalist from the newspaper Sportanalytic, also a geography student and contributor to the Ukrainian Wikipedia. He died during Euromaidan.[7]
2014 24 May Andrea Rocchelli, Italian photojournalist killed in unclear circumstances while covering the Siege of Sloviansk.[8] Ronchelli's Russian interpreter, Andrey Mironov, was also killed.[8] French photographer William Roguelon told Russian television that Rocchelli and Mironov were killed while trying to escape mortar fire, and that he himself was wounded in the incident.[8]
2014 17 June Igor Kornelyuk, Russian reporter died in hospital of wounds. According to a spokesperson of the Luhansk People's Republic, previously he was caught in a mortar firefight staged by Ukrainian forces and his fate along with Voloshin and other 15 rebels who were with them was not known.[9]

Anton Voloshin, sound engineer, killed in same incident. [10]

2014 29 June Anatoly Klyan, Russian cameraman for Russia's Channel One was shot in the stomach as the bus he was riding in came under fire by Ukrainian forces near the entrance to a military base in Donetsk, according to Moscow Times. Klyan was in a bus with mothers of soldiers who reportedly wanted to negotiate with the Ukrainian troops. Klyan died shortly afterwards. Ukrainian officials promised to investigate the incident.[11]
2014 November Aleksandr Kuchinsky, prominent crime reporter, and his wife were murdered.[12]
2015 28 February Serhiy Nikolayev, photojournalist for Segodnya in Kyiv, Ukraine, killed by shelling crossfire.[13]
2015 April Olga Moroz, editor of the Neteshinsky Vestnik[14]
2015 16 April Oles Buzina, journalist and writer.[15]
2016 20 July Pavel Sheremet Belarusian journalist, who was a critic of Russian censorship, killed by a car bomb.[16][17][18]
2022 13 March Brent Renaud, an American journalist, was killed in Ukraine. He was shot by Russian soldiers.[19]
2022 15 March Pierre Zakrzewski had been travelling in a vehicle near Kyiv; he was killed by Russian soldiers.[20]

References

  1. ^ a b "UKRAINE: CPJ urges vigorous investigations, reforms". Committee to Protect Journalists. Retrieved 2006-07-05.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "Journalist killed, independent media harassed". International Press Institute. Retrieved 2006-07-05.
  3. ^ "UKRAINE: Suspect charged with journalist's murder acquitted". Committee to Protect Journalists. Retrieved 2006-07-05.
  4. ^ (in Ukrainian) Фальсифікаторам справи про вбивство журналіста дали до 13 років, Ukrainska Pravda (23 March 2012)
  5. ^ IPI concerned about death of independent news agency's director, International Press Institute (27 November 2002)
  6. ^ Missing, presumed dead: disappearance of Ukrainian journalist deepens media fears, Guardian
  7. ^ "In memoriam of Ihor Kostenko". Wikimedia Ukraine. 23 February 2014. (in Ukrainian)
  8. ^ a b c "Italian journalist Andrea Ronchelli killed in Ukraine". The Guardian. 2014-05-25. Retrieved 2014-05-29.[dead link]
  9. ^ "Russian reporter 'dies of wounds' in east Ukraine". Yahoo! News UK. 2014-06-17. Retrieved 2014-06-17.
  10. ^ http://www.svoboda.org/content/article/25425897.html
  11. ^ "Anatoly Klyan death: Russian cameraman fatally shot in Ukraine 'by government forces'". The Independent. 2014-06-30. Retrieved 2014-06-29.
  12. ^ Obozrevatel, На Донбассе убили журналиста. Вместе с женой [Journalist killed in Donbas. Together with his wife], 29 November 2014.
  13. ^ "Ukrainian photographer killed in fighting". The Guardian.
  14. ^ "Another Ukrainian Journalist Found Dead, Murder Suspected". Novinte. Sofia, Bulgaria. 17 April 2022. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
  15. ^ Prominent Pro-Russian Ukrainian journalist killed in Kiev
  16. ^ https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/21/world/europe/pavel-sheremet-kiev-car-bomb.html?_r=0
  17. ^ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/20/ukraine-journalist-pavel-sheremet-killed-kiev-car-bombing
  18. ^ http://www.dw.com/en/journalist-pavel-sheremets-murder-shocks-ukraine/a-19414665
  19. ^ https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/13/world/europe/brent-renaud-irpin.html
  20. ^ http://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-fox-news-cameraman-killed-by-incoming-fire-outside-of-kyiv-12566885