List of journalists murdered in Ukraine

This is a List of journalists murdered in Ukraine.

A list of journalists (listed chronologically since 1991) containing the names of the mass media workers who became victims of murders or died as a result of the terrorist attacks and military activities on the territory of Ukraine.

On 15 August 2017, the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko assigned the scholarships for the children of journalists who died on duty, in order to support these children and provide them with the social protection they need.[1] In accordance with the presidential decree No. 217/2017, the scholarship will be assigned to a daughter of a captain-lieutenant and an editor of the TV services “Breeze” of the broadcasting agency of the Ministry of Defence (Ukraine) Dmytro Labutkin, - Kira; a daughter of a photojournalist of the Segodnya (Russian: Сегодня, IPA: [sʲɪˈvodʲnʲə] (listen), lit. 'Today') newspaper Sergiy Nikolayev – Valeria; and a son of a journalist from the Vesti (Russian: Вести, "News") newspaper Vyacheslav Veremiy – Maksim.

1991

Myron Lyakhovich – editor of the newspaper Life and Work (Lviv), murdered either at the end of 1991 or at the beginning of 1992, according to different information sources.

1992

Vadym Boyko – journalist of the “Gart” television company (Kyiv), died on 14 February 1992 due to an explosion in his own house. The circumstances of this incident are still not clear. The prosecutor's office stated that the reason of an explosion was a technical fault of the TV set, although the eyewitnesses have reportedly seen that the doors of his apartment were set on fire, while the medical examination results established the fact that his death occurred before the fire started.

1993

Svyatoslav Sosnovsky – editor of the Tavria publishing house (Simferopol, Crimea), died on 29 May 1993. He succumbed to the stab wounds inflicted near his own house.

Mykola Baklanov – staff writer of the newspaper Izvestiya (News, Kyiv), died on 22 July 1993 due to the wounds received as a result of a mob attack.

Yury Osmanov – editor of the newspaper Areket (Simferopol), on 7 November 1993 was found dead on the streets of the city with the craniocerebral injury.

Andriy Lazebnyk – head of the press-centre of the Black Sea Fleet (Sevastopol), on 15 December 1993 shot dead at the doors of his own house.

1994

Sergiy Shepelev – editor of the newspaper Evening Vinnytsia (Vinnytsia), died in January 1994 in fire in his own apartment. Independent experts claim that the journalist was found tied to his bed.

1995

Anatoliy Taran – editor of the newspaper Obolon (Kyiv), was found dead in the wasteland in March 1995.

Volodymyr Ivanov – journalist of the newspaper Glory of Sevastopol (Sevastopol), died on 14 April 1995 as a result of an explosion, when the bomb placed in the trash bin went off.

Viktor Freilikh – freelance correspondent of the newspaper Molody Bukovynets (Chernivtsi), died from poisoning by an unknown substance on 24 May 1995, after he was being threatened due to his activities as a journalist.

Yuriy Djedjula – journalist of the newspapers Kyiv Herald and Interesting Newspaper (Kyiv), was murdered in August 1995.

1996

Georgiy Ovcharenko – journalist of the UT-3 TV channel (“Black Square”), was found dead in his neighbor's apartment.

Ihor Kuzyk – executive editor of the newspaper Army of Ukraine (Lviv), found dead in the park on 29 January 1996, a few months later after his disappearance.

Ihor Hrushetsky – correspondent of the newspaper Ukraine-Centre (Cherkassy), found on the street with the head injury on 7 May 1996.

Oleksandr Motrenko – host of the Saturday Express programme on “Trans-M-Radio” (Simferopol), died on 22 June 1996 as a result of a head injury, when he was attacked by three men. One of them was wearing police uniform.

Anatoliy Tanadaychuk – correspondent of the newspaper Panorama (Vinnytsya). The journalist's body with the traces of injections was found in August 1996.

1997

Volodymyr Bekhter – senior editor of the State Broadcasting Company (Odessa), was beating to death by the police employees on 22 February 1997.

Petro Shevchenko – staff writer of the newspaper Kievskie Vedomosti (Kyiv News) in Luhansk. On 13 March 1997 he was found hanged in the town of Zhulyany, after his disappearance. The reason for his murder could have been a series of reports on the conflict within the local branch of the Security Service of Ukraine.

Vitaliy Kotsyuk – correspondent of the newspaper Day (Kyiv). On 4 July 1997, unidentified persons attacked the journalist on suburban train, beat and burnt him to death.

Volodymyr Katelnytsky – religious activist, journalist and head of the committee of protecting John Demjanjuk. On 8 July 1998, he was brutally murdered along with his mother in his own apartment.

Borys Derevianko – editor-in-chief of the newspaper Evening Odessa (Odessa), murdered on 11 August 1997.

1998

Oleksiy Yefimenko – editor of the newspaper Renaissance (Saky), died after falling from the fourth floor.

Mykola Rakshanov – journalist of the newspaper Facts (Cherkassy), died in August 1998 after receiving a craniocerebral injury. Unlike the doctors, police investigators refused to consider this injury to be a cause of the violent action.

Albert Borisov – editor-in-chief of the newspaper Miner’s News (Krasnodon).

1999

Vyacheslav Chornovil – journalist, dissident, politician, died on 25 March 1999 as a result of a car accident that is considered by many researchers to be a well-planned murder.

Ihor Bondar – director of the broadcasting company “AMT” (Odessa), shot dead on 16 May 1999 along with the judge Borys Vikhrovy.

Maryana Chorna – journalist of the TV channel “STB” (Kyiv), found hanged on 24 June 1999.

Vasyl Chudyk – editor-in-chief of the radio station Nezalezhnist (Independence, Lviv), found dead on 18 July 1999 in his own house.

Vitaliy Maslovsky – Lviv based historian and writer who strongly criticized the members of Ukrainian insurgent movement of the XX century. Died as a result of falling from the stairs on 26 October 1999.

2000

Vladislav Ryabchikov – correspondent of the newspaper Krymskaya Pravda (Simferopol), died on 27 April 2000 as a result of being hit by car. Editorial staff considers this road accident to be an intended murder.

Georgiy Gongadze – co-founder of the website Ukrainska Pravda, abducted and murdered on 16 September 2000 in Tarashchansky district of Kyiv region.

Yuliy Mazur – editor-in-chief of the newspaper South (Odessa), was found dead on 30 November 2000 near the office of “Chornomorya” publishing house.

Volodymyr Palchikov – journalist of radio centre (Dnipro), murdered in 29 December 2000.

Volodymyr Smirnov – correspondent of the newspaper Vremya (Time, Mykolayiv), died on 29 December 2000, succumbing to wounds he received as a result of a mob attack in the street.

2001

Oleg Bilous – editor-in-chief of the weekly magazine XXI Century (Luhansk), shot dead on 24 June 2001 near his own house.

Ihor Aleksandrov – director of the private broadcasting company TOR (Slovyansk), died on 7 July 2001 from the numerous injuries he received as a result of an attack carried out by the unidentified persons on 3 July, during the attack at the company's office. The investigation started by Aleksandrov led to the long prison sentences of a few former policemen.

Oleksandr Kovalenko – editor-in-chief of the newspaper Social Politics (Kyiv), on 8 February 2001 was found shot dead in the forest near the town of Zhytomyr.

Yuriy Honchar – freelance correspondent of the newspaper Facts and comments (Kyiv), murdered in his own apartment on 25 October 2001.

2002

Yuriy Shevtsov – photojournalist of the newspaper Krymskaya Pravda (Simferopol), was found murdered on 3 August 2002 in the forest after being missed for several days.

Volodymyr Provorotsky – host of the regional broadcasting company in Sumy region, murdered on 15 September 2001 in his own apartment. Official version: domestic motives.

Oleksandr Panych – journalist of the media Donetsk News (Donetsk), murdered on 15 November 2002 by his friend who was acting under the influence of drugs.

2003

Oleksiy Tereshchuk – deputy editor-in-chief of the newspaper Vinnychyna, brutally beaten in December 2002, died on 10 January 2003.

Taras Protsyuk – Ukrainian journalist murdered in Iraq.

Volodymyr Yefremov – correspondent of the Institute of the mass media (Dnipro), on 15 July 2003 died in a car accident which was considered to be not a coincidence.

Volodymyr Karachentsev – deputy editor-in-chief of the newspaper Courier (Melitopol), on 14 December 2003 presumably killed in his own house.

2004

Yuriy Chechyk – director of radio station “Yuta” (Poltava), on 3 March 2004 died in a suspicious car accident.

Ishtvan Kasanek – cameraman of the TV channel “M-Studio” (Uzhhorod), died on 2 June 2004 under the strange circumstances.

2006

Vadym Gudyk – independent journalist (Bila Tserkva, Kyiv oblast). On 24 May 2006 was shot dead on the city main square.

Kyrylo Berezhny – editor of the newspaper Orthodox View (Union of the Orthodox Fellowships of Ukraine, Kyiv), died on 8 September 2006.

Norik Shyrin – founder of Crimean-Tatar newspaper The Voice of Youth (Simferopol), died on 20 December 2006.

2008

Viktor Valyaev – head of the department and photojournalist of a local newspaper (Novi Sanzhary Raion), died together with his wife on 24 September 2006 as a result of brutal beating during the mob attack of their house that occurred on the previous day, on 23 September.

2010

Vasyl Klymentiev – editor of the newspaper New Style (Kharkiv), disappeared without trace on 11 March 2010 and was proclaimed dead.

2012

Volodymyr Honcharenko – editor of the newspaper Eco-Safety (Dnipro), died on 4 September 2012 after being brutally beaten by several persons on 1 August.

2013

Sergiy Starokozhko – former employee of the newspaper Free Reporter (Luhansk), shot dead on 20 November 2013.

2014

Vyacheslav Veremiy – reporter of the newspaper Vesti (News, Kyiv), beaten and shot dead on 19 February 2014.

Ihor Kostenko – journalist of the newspaper Sportanalytic (Sports Analutics, Kyiv), Wikipedia editor, on 20 February 2014 was shot dead by the sniper during the Euromaidan protests.

Vasyl Sergienko – editor of the newspaper Nadrossya (Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi Raion, Cherkasy Oblast), abducted and murdered by the unidentified persons on 4 April 2014.

Dmytro Ivanov – journalist, music critic, died on 2 May 2014 during the fire in Odessa Trade Union building.

Volodymyr Martsishevsky – journalist of the information bulletin Kamenyari Info (Stonemasons Info), defender of Hostynnyi Dvir in Kyiv. On 11 June 2014 he was kidnapped from Maidan press-centre and brutally beaten. He succumbed to his wounds and died in the hospital on 15 June.

Sergei Dolgov – was a Ukrainian journalist who served as editor for the Vestnik Pryazovya and Khochu v SSSR in Mariupol before he went missing. Disappeared June 18, 2014. Media supporting the Russian government declared his disappearance a murder.

Oleksandr Kuchinsky – editor-in-chief of the newspaper Criminal Express, author of the books Chronicles of Donetsk banditry (both written in Russian), murdered on 29 November 2014 together with his wife in his suburban residence in the town of Bogorodyne near Slovyansk.

2015

Olga Moroz – editor-in-chief of the newspaper Netishynsky Herald (Khmelnytskyi Oblast), was murdered on 15 March 2015 in her own house.

Serhiy Sukhobok – founder of the newspaper Reflection, co-founder of the online-media ProUA and “Obkom”, murdered in Rusanivski Gardens (Kyiv) on 13 April 2015.

Oles Buzina – was a political Ukrainian journalist and writer. He was murdered on 16 April 2015, shot on the footpath not far from his flat in Kyiv. In June, Ukrainian authorities arrested three suspects believed to be behind the murder. Previously, he said on a Russian TV show that he was receiving constant death threats. A previously unknown Ukrainian far-right fashist nationalist group "Ukrainian Insurgent Army" was reported to claim responsibility for the murders of Buzina and other figures that they believed were pro-Russian.

2016

Pavel Sheremet – Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian TV, radio and periodical media journalist, died on 20 July 2016 in Kyiv as a result of a vehicle explosion.

2018

Kateryna Handziuk – was a Ukrainian civil rights and anti-corruption activist campaigner and political advisor,[2] who exposed corruption in her hometown of Kherson.[3] She was attacked with sulphuric acid on 31 July 2018, and died from her injuries on 4 November 2018. In 2012 she became a co-founder of citizen journalism Agency (MOST) and website most.ks.ua. The site has become a platform, illuminating issues of local politics, and later became the only region in the media, focused on the monitoring of public procurement and spending of public finances. The team of the Agency for Citizen Journalism (MOST) is engaged in anti-corruption and monitoring research in the Kherson region. After the announcement of her death, spontaneous mourning occurred in the Ukrainian capital, in which hundreds of demonstrators moved to the Ministry of Interior and demanded the complete investigation of the murder.[4][5]

See also

References

  1. (in Ukrainian) Дітям журналістів, які загинули під час виконання службових обов'язків, призначено стипендії - Указ Президента
  2. "Ukrainische Aktivistin stirbt nach Säureanschlag" [Ukrainian activist dies after acid attack]. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). 5 November 2018. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
  3. "Ukrainian anti-corruption activist dies after acid attack". The Independent. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
  4. "Aktivistin stirbt nach Säureangriff" [Activist dies after acid attack] (in German). Tagesschau. 5 November 2018. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
  5. Mendel, Iuliia (5 November 2018). "Kateryna Handziuk, Ukrainian Activist, Dies From Acid Attack". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 November 2018.

General sources

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.