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We have prepared cards about 22 dead anarchists and anti-fascists in Ukraine.Among them there are people from Crimea and Donetsk, and there are also three Russian anarchists who fought against the occupying army of Russia. In the list of international fighters there is one anti-fascist from Belarus, citizens of European countries and America.
The material is based on the found open information. Memories of comrades and texts from necrologies were used in the description of the dead.
While working on the posts we used information from Solidarity Collectives, Kharkiv Hardcore, MEMORIAL, Nihilist.li, Avtonom.org, Resistance Committee and others.
The list is approximate and incomplete. Some information about the victims is hidden, somewhere the information does not reach the public, also not always the victims clearly defined their political views and sympathies.
The photo in the headline is a photo from the anarchist action in Odessa in memory of the dead fighters in Ukraine on 29 August 2024.
Maxim ‘Rudskoi’ Naumenko
Maksim is from Donetsk, but at the beginning of Russian aggression in 2014 he moved with his family deeper into Ukraine. He was at the origin of the anarchist, antifascist, animal rights and vegan movement in Ukraine in the 2000s, Max participated in many actions. His activities and ideas made him a significant figure. He was also a music DJ, and performed at ska, punk concerts. He died in combat on 11 October 2023 near his hometown of Donetsk
Olga ‘Tisha’ Volkova
Olga was a supporter of feminism and anarchism. She lived in Kharkov, where she worked in a social and cultural centre and did educational work. With the outbreak of war, she became a paramedic and turned her flat into a small hospital. Olga served in the territorial defence of Kharkov. During the fighting, she received a contusion that eventually led to her death.
Yuri ‘Tovarich’ Lebedev
Socialist, activist of the movement ‘Save Old Kyiv’ and student trade union ‘Direct Action’, ‘Left Initiative’, etc. Worked as a lawyer. He was a participant of protest actions of the antifascist movement, solidarity actions with prisoners, as well as an animal rights activist. Yura was among the protesters against the coal terminal in Sevastopol and at the Kiev pickets in support of the defenders of the Khimki Forest near Moscow. He died on 28/01/2024 while on a combat mission near Bakhmut. He had been in combat since the spring of 2022.
Yuriy Samoilenko
Long-time participant of the anarchist and antifascist movement in Ukraine. He also participated in ecological events. Since 2014 — participant in the war of defence of Ukraine in Donbass. Leader and combat commander. In 2022 he was the initiator of the centralised mobilisation of the antifascist movement to resist imperial aggression and the creation of the ‘Anti-Authoritarian Troop’. On 10 September 2022, he died in hospital after being wounded in combat with an enemy tank. Yura was left with a wife and a young child.
Igor ‘Crimean’ Volokhov
Igor was a consistent and ideological anarchist. He supported his friends, prisoners. He dreamed of organising a network of cooperatives all over Ukraine. Among his honours: development of the trade union movement, organised participation in the Kharkiv Maidan, initiation of the squat ‘Autonomy’. He was a member of the punk scene and at one time played in a cult Kharkov punk band. Igor took the call sign ‘‘Crimean’’ because he was a native of Crimea, dreamed of liberating his homeland and was on his way to this goal. In the first days of the invasion of Russian troops, he signed up as a volunteer in the territorial defence unit, got a weapon and fought with the occupants. He died on the 2nd of March 2022, after a rocket attack in the centre of Kharkov
Vladislav ‘Pirate’ Yurchenko
An anarchist-internationalist from Russia. Vladislav fought in the ‘Siberian Battalion’ on the side of Ukraine and was killed in action during the landing operation on 9/08/2024. Before coming to Ukraine, Vladislav participated in solidarity actions with anarchist and other anti-government prisoners. He fought against russian fascism and imperialism. Vladislav was also inspired by the Kurdish revolution. He worked on sea ships, quit his job and went to fight for the freedom of the Ukrainian people, for the freedom of Russian citizens and indigenous peoples enslaved by Russia.
Samuel Newey
A British internationalist died in the fighting on the side of Ukraine on 30.08.2023. Samuel Newey’s death was first reported by his brother Daniel on social media, noting that the fellow had travelled to Ukraine ‘to fight back against Russian imperialism’. In 2020, Samuel Newey and his father Paul were charged with terrorism in connection withDaniel’s decision to join the Kurdish YPG militia.The charges were soon dropped.
Ruslan Tereshchenko
Anarchist. Participant of RevDia (Revolutionary Action). Fought in Donbass in 2017-18 against Russian occupiers. Popularised combat training in anarchist circles. He is featured in a film about the anarchist underground in Kiev by Popular Front. The video shows anarchists holding radical actions with Molotov cocktails, attacking neo-nazis, expressing solidarity with imprisoned anarchists in Russia and Belarus. They organise a march in memory of anarchists S. Markelov and A. Baburova killed in Moscow. Ruslan was arrested at protests in Belarus in 2011-12 and deported from there. On the day of the invasion 24/02/2022 Ruslan joined the army. He died in battle on 30/06/2024.
Sergei ‘Rubin’ Petrovichev
Sergey is a Russian anarchist. Since 2014, he has lived in Ukraine, participated with arms in his hands in repelling Putin’s aggression. In 2015, he lost his leg in a landmine explosion. In recent years, ‘Rubin’ participated in anarchist actions in Kiev. After the Russian invasion in 2022, Sergei was back in action. He was in contact with a number of anarchists and gave them support.He died on 6 September during an assault in the Izyum direction. According to his friend, Rubin was marching to the attack at full height — his prosthesis made it hard for him to crawl. In the last message on his page, Rubin wrote: ‘Freedom to the peoples, death to empires!’.
Cooper “Harris” Andrews
Cooper was a former Marine and left-wing activist. At home, he was involved in a wide range of activism. He was a good organiser and instructor and was also part of the Popular Front team. With the start of the full-scale Russian invasion, he went to serve in the International Legion to fight back against Russian imperialism. He was killed along with Russian anarchist D.Petrov and Irish socialist Finbar Cafferkey in the fighting near Bakhmut 19/04/23
Roman Legar
Anarchist, member of the organisation Revdiya (‘Revolutionary Action’). He was a freedom fighter. He spent all his time, resources and efforts to develop the movement and move it forward. He was on the Maidan. And in 2017 he went to Belarus, where he joined the protests and was detained for a month in prison. At the start of the full-scale war, he joined an anti-authoritarian battlegroup. Later, through military bureaucracy, wanting to be useful to the front, Roman joined the Azov Brigade. He fought as an FPV drone operator. He died while carrying out a combat mission at positions in Donetsk region on 9/06/2024
Alexander «Yozhik» Varzakov
He’s a Punk rocker, was part of the Kharkov punk community. Just a regular working class guy from the outskirts of Kharkov. Took part in solidarity actions with political prisoners. He had a ‘Solidarity’ tattoo. For some time he was engaged in social activities and participated in many direct action activities. At the end of the summer of 2022, he voluntarily enlisted the Ukrainian Defence Forces and served in an aerial reconnaissance unit. He died in the autumn of 2023.
Dmitry ‘Leshiy’ Petrov
Russian anarchist, member of the Combat Organisation of Anarcho-Communists. He was a founder of the Resistance Committee and took up arms to fight against Putin’s army. He died in the storming on 19/04/2023. Dmitry was at the foundation of the anarchist guerrilla movement. He took part in direct actions burning police cars, bulldozers, and the bombing of a poilce checkpoint in Moscow. Participated in environmental actions. Organised food distribution to the needy. Advocated for workers’ rights. He was part of the antifascist movement, confronting neo-Nazis on the streets. Participated in Maidan and protests in Belarus. Travelled to Kurdistan to support Rojava.
Sergey ‘Banana’ Ilchenko
He is an anarchist and a fighter, a member of the Black Flag organisation. Since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion, he and his comrades in the organisation went to fight against the occupiers.
He always defended the ideals of freedom and equality. And he hated the fascist chauvinistic scum against whom he raised his arms and in battle with whom he eventually died. Died after being wounded on 11/06/2023
Marci
He was a militant anarchist and a libertarian leftist. He fought in Kurdistan against ISIS and supported the Kurdish liberation movement in Rojava. In Ukraine, he fought again, this time against Russian fascism. He took a history degree at Oxford, helped refugees and participated in squatting actions. He was one of the first Western anarchists to join the anarchist resistance against the Russian invaders. He joined an anti-authoritarian platoon. Later, with an international group of anarchist paramedics, he saved lives at the front. Later he joined an assault unit. He died a hero’s death, covering the retreat of his comrades.
Eugene Osievsky
A 29-year-old journalist died near Bakhmut on 22 May 2023. He was the author of the magazines ‘Kunsht’ and ‘Spilne’. Eugene went to the front in 2022 ‘Spilne’ is a Ukrainian left-wing intellectual magazine founded by social analysts and activists. The magazine’s stance is left-wing and anticapitalist.
Zhvir
joined the front as a Belarusian anti-fascist volunteer. Information and photos are hidden
Finbar Cafferkey
Cafferkey was an Irish Republican and socialist. In 2017 Cafferkey was in Syria providing medical aid before he joined the People’s Defense Units, an arm of the Syrian Democratic Forces aligned with Rojava, and fought against the Islamic State. In 2023 it emerged that Cafferkey had been in Ukraine, fighting alongside the Ukrainian International Legion against the Russian invasion. Cafferkey was killed 19 April 2023 together with the Russian anarchist D. Petrov and the American leftist C. Andrews. near the city of Bakhmut in the Donetsk Oblast .
Sergey Kemsky
Sergey Kemsky is a journalist, writer and anarchist known for his active political stance and participation in protest movements. He was born in Crimea. He was a supporter of anarchism and antifascism. Sergey took part in protests and actions related to the defence of workers’ rights, ecology and other social issues. In 2013. Kemsky joined the Euromaidan in Kiev, where he covered the events and actively participated in the protests. He was among those on the barricades defending people’s rights and freedoms. 20/02/2014 Sergei died from a gunshot wound during clashes on Institutska Street, becoming one of the victims on Maidan
Dmitro
27/01/2023 Dmytro was killed in the assault. He was part of the punk movement Kharkiv Hardcore family.
Zhenya
Zhenya was the guitarist of the hardcore punk band Retaliation. He died during the shelling of Kharkov 22/04/2022. Zhenya was involved in volunteer work, helping the elderly
Vladimir Antonenko
Musician of hardcore bands janpalach, Dughouse, Superflat and others from Odessa. In the announcement of their Eurotour in 2022 janpalach wrote ‘Stop russian nazis’ Stop Putin! Support Ukraine!’. Vladimir was supposed to play at the Czech festivals ‘Football against Racism’ and Fluff fest. But he was at the front.
