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Andriy Viktorovych "Kuzma" Kuzmenko (Ukrainian: Андрі́й Ві́кторович Кузьме́нко; 17 August 1968 – 2 February 2015) was a Ukrainian singer, poet, writer, TV presenter, producer and actor, Hero of Ukraine (2020). He was best known as the lead singer of the Ukrainian rock band Skryabin, founded in 1989.
On 23 March, the Mayor of Motyzhyn, Olga Sukhenko, was killed by Russian forces. [133] On 31 March, Oleksiy Tsybko, a rugby union player, was killed by Russian forces. [134] On 2 April, the Prosecutor General's office announced the death of photographer Maks Levin due to Russian small-arms fire outside Kyiv. He had disappeared on 13 March. [135]
A high-ranking diplomat from the EU mission in Russia also confirmed that Bakaev did not cross the border of any of the Schengen countries in August 2017 or later. In October 2017, international press outlets, [ 12 ] [ 13 ] and primarily the LGBT media, alleged the singer had died as a result of torture at the hands of the Chechen police as ...
A second wave of deaths began with the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Yevhenii Sakun, a Ukrainian, was the first journalist killed in that phase of the war, a victim of a Russian airstrike on the Kyiv TV Tower on 1 March 2022. Six more journalists have been killed by Russian soldiers, including four shot and one killed by shelling.
At least 20 Russian soldiers, as well as singer Polina Menshikh, were killed in the missile strike, according to Ukrainian sources
On 19 March 2024, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the FSB to hunt down and “punish” Russians serving in the Ukrainian military and compared them to the Russian Liberation Army which had collaborated with Nazi Germany during World War II. [1]
Kobzon has been active in Russian politics since 1989. He was an experienced Russian MP and enjoyed landslide election victories. [12] His first major political achievement (1989–1991) transpired when his promotion of Jewish culture in the USSR aided the establishment of diplomatic ties between USSR and Israel. [11]
A list of journalists (listed chronologically since 1991) containing the names of the mass media workers who became victims of murders or died while in 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]