At least 53 United States citizens have been killed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, as of 23 May 2024, most of them being US military veterans.[1][2] Most died as soldiers serving in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but several civilians were also killed and one died serving in the Donetsk People's Milita's Vostok Brigade.
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List of fatalities
Soldiers
The following list contains 47 servicemen listed as killed among the Armed Forces of Ukraine:
Date of death | Name | Age | Military background | Location of death |
---|---|---|---|---|
April 25, 2022 | Joseph Cancel | 22 | US Army | N/A[3][4] |
April 26, 2022 | Grady Kurpasi | 50 | USMC | Mykolaiv Oblast[5] |
May 15, 2022 | Stephen Zabielski | 52 | US Army | Dorozhnyanka, Zaporizhzhia Oblast[3][6] |
May 2022 | Dalton Kennedy | 26 | US Army | near Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast[7] |
July 18, 2022 | Bryan Young | 51 | US Army | Hryhorivka, Donetsk Oblast[3][8] |
July 18, 2022 | Luke Lucyszyn | 31 | None (US Police) | Hryhorivka, Donetsk Oblast[3][8] |
August 23, 2022 | Joshua Jones | 24 | US Army | Yegorovka, Donetsk Oblast[3][9] |
October 5, 2022 | Paul Lee Kim | 34 | US Army | near Ternovi Pody, Mykolaiv Oblast[3][10] |
October 11, 2022 | Dane Partridge | 34 | US Army | Zaporizhzhia, Zaporizhzhia Oblast (wounds from 3 October 2022)[3][11] |
late October 2022 | Skyler James Greggs | 23 | N/A | Northeast Ukraine[3][12] |
November 7, 2022 | Timothy Griffin | N/A | N/A | Kharkiv Oblast[3][13] |
November 8, 2022 | Trent Davis | 21 | US Army | near Kherson, Kherson Oblast[3] |
November 27 2022 | Gordon Charles Kaleff | 39 | N/A | N/A[14] |
December 4, 2022 | Clayton Hightower | 30 | US Army | near Kupiansk, Kharkiv Oblast[15] |
December 23, 2022 | Alexander Snihurosskyii | N/A | N/A | N/A[16] |
January 18/19, 2023 | Daniel W. Swift | 35 | US Navy | Dnipro, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (wounds from 14 January 2023, in Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast)[17] |
February 16, 2023 | Andrew Peters | 28 | US Army | N/A[18] |
March 26, 2023 | Steven Keith Munroe | 33 | N/A | N/A[19][20] |
April 7, 2023 | Christopher James Campbell | 27 | US Army | Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast[21] |
April 7, 2023 | Edward Wilton | 22 | US Army | Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast[22] |
April 19, 2023 | Cooper Andrews | 26 | USMC | Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast[23] |
April 26, 2023 | Nathan Michael Keener | 31 | N/A | N/A[24] |
May 10, 2023 | Bradley Jarema | 20 | N/A | Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast[25][26] |
May 17, 2023 | Nicholas Maimer | 45 | US Army | Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast[27] |
May 21, 2023 | Uliana Julia Voytovich Neilsen | 38 | None | near Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast[28][29] |
late May 2023 | Mikhail Yavorsky | 42 | N/A | near Kreminna, Luhansk Oblast[30] |
June 27, 2023 | Ian Frank Tortorici | 32 | USMC | Kramatorsk, Donetsk Oblast[31] |
July 14, 2023 | Derek Thien Tran | 28 | US Army | N/A[32] |
July 29, 2023 | Andrew Irvin Webber | 40 | US Army | Donetsk Oblast[33] |
July 29, 2023 | Lance Allen Lawrence | 28 | N/A | Donetsk Oblast[33] |
July 31, 2023 | Jeffrey Judd Jones | 48 | N/A | near Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast[34] |
September 4/5, 2023 | Jericho Skye Magallon | 28 | US Army | near Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast[35] |
September 27, 2023 | Dalton J. Medlin | 24 | US Army | Donetsk Oblast[36] |
October 1, 2023 | David Lee Cote | 35 | N/A | N/A[37] |
October 3, 2023 | Alex Brandon Coburn | 23 | N/A | N/A[38] |
October 7, 2023 | David Baturin | 26 | N/A | N/A[39] |
October 12/13, 2023 | Joel David Beal | 35 | USMC | Pervomaiske, Donetsk Oblast[40][41] |
October 15, 2023 | Chase K. Gaia | 27 | N/A | N/A[42] |
November 15, 2023 | Eric Vargas | 35 | N/A | near Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast[43] |
November 24, 2023 | Thomas Gray Harris | 33 | USMC | N/A[44] |
December 3, 2023 | Brendon Bowersox | 35 | US Army | Kherson Oblast[45][46] |
December 4, 2023 | Seth Patrick Bryan | 19 | N/A | Kherson Oblast[47] |
December 8, 2023 | Ethan Hertweck | 21 | USMC | Avdiivka, Donetsk Oblast[45] |
February 7, 2024 | James Lambert | N/A | N/A | Makiivka, Donetsk Oblast[48] |
late March 2024 | Cedric Charles Hamm | 26 | US Army | near Chasiv Yar, Donetsk Oblast[49][50][51] |
April 19, 2024 | Ian Burdette | 25 | N/A | Unknown[52][53] |
May 19, 2024 | Collin Teem | 23 | USMC | Unknown[54] |
Civilians
The following list contains five civilians listed as killed during the conflict:
Date of death | Name | Age | Location of death |
---|---|---|---|
March 13, 2022 | Brent Renaud | 50 | Irpin, Kyiv Oblast[55] |
March 17, 2022 | James Hill | N/A | Chernihiv, Chernihiv Oblast[55] |
February 2, 2023 | Pete Reed | 33 | Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast[56] |
September 27, 2023 | Vladimir Mironyuk | 59 | near Kurdiumivka, Donetsk Oblast[57] |
January 12, 2024 | Gonzalo Lira | 55 | N/A[58] |
Other US casualties
In mid-April 2022, Russian sources presented the passport of an American fighter, Joseph Ward Clark, who they claimed to have either been killed or captured, although this was not confirmed.[59]
Two American fighters, Alexander John-Robert Drueke and Andy Tai Ngoc Huynh, were captured on 9 June 2022, near Kharkiv, by the Russian military,[60] before being released in a prisoner exchange on 21 September 2022.[61]
One American, Russell Bentley, aged 64, was killed while fighting on the side of the pro-Russian separatists on 8 April 2024, in Donetsk.[62]
See also
References
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