in unknown circumstances. On 12 March, Colonel Dmytro Apukhtin, Deputy Commander of the 23rd Public Security Protection Brigade was killed near Mariupol during the attack of an enemy column. On 12 March, Colonel Valeriy Hudz, Commander of the 24th Mechanized Brigade was killed in Lugansk. On 13 March, Major Stephen Tarabalka, an Air Force pilot, was shot down and killed while fighting Russian forces. Tarabalka was hinted by Western media to be the Ghost of Kyiv. On 13 March, Aliaksiej Skoblia, Belarusian volunteer, member of Ukrainian Special Operations Forces and deputy Commander of Kastuś Kalinoŭski Battalion. Killed by Russian forces during an ambush in the outskirt of Kyiv. On 14 March, Mykola Kravchenko, a public and political figure, and the founder of the right-wing Azov Battalion, was killed during the Battle of Kyiv. On 25 March, Senior lieutenant Maxim Kagal was killed during the Battle of Mariupol. He was a kickboxing athlete and world champion in the national team of Ukraine; awarded posthumously Hero of Ukraine. On 1 April, Yuriy Ruf, a poet, was killed while fighting Russian forces in Luhansk. On 30 April, Ivan Bidnyak, a Silver medalist at the European Shooting Championships, was killed in action. On 7 May, Colonel , Commander of the , and deputy commander of Ukrainian Navy, was killed by a missile from a Russian fighter jet while performing a combat mission. On 9 June, Roman Ratushny, a Euromaidan activist and soldier, died during a battle near Izyum. On 12 June, , a military journalist and soldier, died during the Donbas offensive. Chubashev was the Chief of a Radio and a TV channel of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense. On 19 June, Oleh Kutsyn, a political and military figure, died during battle in Izyum. Kutsyn was the head of the "Legion of Freedom" of the Svoboda party as well as Commander of company Karpatska Sich of the 93rd Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. On 26 June, head of the Ukrainian Air Force 40th Tactical Aviation Brigade colonel Mykhailo Matyushenko was killed in dogfight over Black Sea. On 30 June, Thalita do Valle, a Brazilian model and actor, was killed by a missile strike, whilst fighting in Kharkiv. On 23 July, Colonel , Commander of the 28th Separate Mechanized Brigade died in Mykolaiv by an enemy airtrike. On 26 July, Major Oleksandr Kukurba, chief of Intelligence at the HQ of the 299th