Personalities before and after the start of the war

Serhiy Kaznadiy "Hera", a volunteer with the Hospitallers medical evacuation battalion of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army, died in Donetsk Oblast.

A theatre and film actor and soldier, Yevhen Shumilov, died at the front. He was defending his wounded comrade-in-arms.

A photo selection of famous Ukrainians whose faces and bodies were maimed by Russia

Stanislav Aseyev is a Ukrainian writer, journalist and human rights activist, member of PEN Ukraine, founder of the Justice Initiative Fund. He was kidnapped on 11 May 2017 and held by the pro-Russian terrorist organisation 'DPR' until 29 December…

Roman Balan is a Ukrainian public figure, volunteer, co-founder of the People's Home Front volunteer association, and chairman of the attestation commission of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in 2016. 

He saved a wounded man and was killed by a sniper's bullet. Dmytro Sinchenko is a volunteer journalist from Kropyvnytskyi.

Serhii Skald, Hlib Babich, Oleh Bobalo, Anton Prasolenko, Andrii Maksymenko, Volodymyr Chornyi - Ukrainian artists who gave their lives in the fight against the Russian occupiers.

Serhiy Filimonov is a Ukrainian military and public figure, a lieutenant in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, commander of the Da Vinci Wolves battalion, and a participant in the Russian-Ukrainian war since 2014.

A well-known Zaporizhzhia historian and senior researcher at the Khortytsia National Reserve, Maksym Shtatskyi, died defending Ukraine. He was 35 years old.

He quickly liberated Kharkiv region and prevented the occupation of Kyiv. Oleksandr Syrskyi is the new Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.